Larry Wall Quotes
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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
Larry Wall Speaks at Google (2008)
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.
If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
*** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'.\n
if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.
Life is ridiculous.
I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
What do people think?
What, do people think?
Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.