Larry Wall Quotes
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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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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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)
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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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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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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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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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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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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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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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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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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.