Larry Wall Quotes
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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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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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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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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Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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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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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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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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As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
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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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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)
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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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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.