Larry Wall Quotes
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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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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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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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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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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...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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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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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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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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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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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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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.