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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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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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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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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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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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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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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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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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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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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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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...