Larry Wall Quotes
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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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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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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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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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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 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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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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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.