Larry Wall Quotes
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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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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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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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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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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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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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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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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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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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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Help save the world!
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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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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.