Larry Wall Quotes
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.
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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)
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There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.