Larry Wall Quotes
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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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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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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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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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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Help save the world!
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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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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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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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> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
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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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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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Boxed Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
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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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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.