Larry Wall Quotes
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
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And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.
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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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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...