Larry Wall Quotes
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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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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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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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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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
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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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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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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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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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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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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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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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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.