Larry Wall quotes - page 12

I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. (Larry Wall)
You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all. View quote
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind... View quote
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster. View quote
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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. View quote
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I surely do hope that's a syntax error. View quote
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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.) View quote
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers... View quote
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree. View quote
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b. View quote
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If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero. (Larry Wall)
That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough. View quote
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Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions? I'm still working on the Unicode mods. View quote
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. View quote
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So I'm thinking about??, or!!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like?? the best so far. Or the least worst. View quote
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In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that. View quote
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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it. View quote
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so. View quote
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"tt>#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */. View quote
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break; /* don't do magic till later */. View quote
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"tt>pos += screamnext[ pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */. (Larry Wall)
OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you... View quote
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous. View quote
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"tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */. View quote
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But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing! View quote
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