Larry Wall Quotes
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)
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...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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Help save the world!
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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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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.