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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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Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go.
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?
I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...
It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
Even the White House has a press agent.
if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this *
Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as
'Unix'.
How do you type it? With your keyboard.
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
/* And you'll never guess what the dog had */
/* in its mouth... *
> (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.
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
- cut in regexps
I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
...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.
OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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. :-