Larry Wall Quotes
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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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The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
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Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.
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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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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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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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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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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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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.
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And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
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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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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.