Larry Wall Quotes
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I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
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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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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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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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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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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language-the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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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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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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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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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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Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
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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.