Larry Wall Quotes
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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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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
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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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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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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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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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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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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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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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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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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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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.
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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.