Larry Wall Quotes
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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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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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...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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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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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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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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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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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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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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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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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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.