Larry Wall Quotes
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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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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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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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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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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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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...
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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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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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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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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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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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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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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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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
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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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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...