Larry Wall Quotes
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip...
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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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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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
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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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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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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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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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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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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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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...