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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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