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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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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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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
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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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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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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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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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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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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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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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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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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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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it isĀ :-)
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Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
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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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The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
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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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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars . . .
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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