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born 1954 United States
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.
Perl will always provide the null.
As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...
It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip...
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...
And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.
P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
And it goes against the grain of building small tools.
Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
There's often more than one correct thing.
There's often more than one right thing.
There's often more than one obvious thing.
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.