Larry Wall Quotes
-
If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...
-
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
-
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.
-
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
-
The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
-
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).
-
Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
-
Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
-
We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
-
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
-
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
-
We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
-
Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
-
Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
-
This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
-
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
-
Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
-
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
-
Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
-
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
-
Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
-
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
-
Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
-
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.