Larry Wall Quotes
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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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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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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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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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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.
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> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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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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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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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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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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...