Larry Wall Quotes
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.
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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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Beauty? What's that?
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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 don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
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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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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.