Larry Wall Quotes
-
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.
-
I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
-
It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.
-
It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
-
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
-
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
-
If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
-
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
-
And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
-
Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars . . .
-
Just don't create a file called -rf.
-
So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.
-
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types-in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
-
They can always run stderr through uniq.