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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.)
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually
right.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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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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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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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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