Larry Wall Quotes
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
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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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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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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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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
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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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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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.