introspection (and Perl 6)

[jesse]

> I must be missing the magic fairy dust property of every other programming 
> language in the universe that somehow allows barely competent monkeys to 
> perform heroic acts of software development despite their inexperience and 
> incompetence.

As related to me by a friend who works for a Large Bank, it's not about
the heroism, so much as limiting how much damage any one monkey can do.