Larry Wall Quotes
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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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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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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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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be 'All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us'. We'll get to that.
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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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...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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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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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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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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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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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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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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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.