Larry Wall Quotes
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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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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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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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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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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It's all magic.
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Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.