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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... (Larry Wall)
Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... View quote
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright. View quote
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"tt>echo $package has manual pages available in source form.echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you. View quote
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution. View quote
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"tt>double value; /* or your money back! */short changed; /* so triple your money back! */. View quote
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P. S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight... View quote
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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.) View quote
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"tt>echo 'Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc. a...'echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in. View quote
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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... View quote
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that... (Larry Wall)
Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix. View quote
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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... View quote
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"tt>if (instr(buf, sys_errlist[ errno])) /* you don't see this */. View quote
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You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so. View quote
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> (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. View quote
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English. View quote
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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally... View quote
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Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars... View quote
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If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp. lang. misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization. View quote
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't. (Larry Wall)
If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that... View quote
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [ sic] anymore. View quote
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I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser. View quote
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!! View quote
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