Larry Wall Quotes
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
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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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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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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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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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There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.
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So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.
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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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Beauty? What's that?
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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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 whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...