Larry Wall Quotes
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
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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 note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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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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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.
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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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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.