Larry Wall Quotes
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Be consistent.
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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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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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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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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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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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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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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Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.