Larry Wall Quotes
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be 'All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us'. We'll get to that.
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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It's all magic.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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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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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language.
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.