Larry Wall Quotes
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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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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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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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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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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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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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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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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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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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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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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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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Be consistent.
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.
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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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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.