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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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This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language—the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI. pm, we're probably okay.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.
Life is ridiculous.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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Boss:
You forgot to assign the result of your map!
Hacker:
Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...
Boss:
And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?
Hacker:
Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...
Boss:
Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Born:
September 27, 1954
(age 69)
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Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
Known for:
Programming Perl (1991)
Black Perl (1999)
O'Reilly Perl Toolkit (1999)
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