Larry Wall Quotes
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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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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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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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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> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.
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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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Boxed Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
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Help save the world!
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.