Larry Wall Quotes
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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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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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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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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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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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 hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.