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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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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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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...
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We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
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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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I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right... But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most.
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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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: - cut in regexps
I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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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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To someone at New York University:
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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We have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.
(yet)
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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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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