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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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... 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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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.

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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

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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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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.

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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

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People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be strict in how they speak, and liberal in how they listen. You'd think that would also be obvious. Instead, we're taught to express ourselves.

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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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Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

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