Larry Wall Quotes
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)
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Boxed Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
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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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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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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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...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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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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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The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.