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, 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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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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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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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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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
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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 only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.