Larry Wall Quotes
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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Help save the world!
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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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The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
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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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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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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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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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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.