Larry Wall Quotes
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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 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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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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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 only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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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's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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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...
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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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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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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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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.