Quote #109

As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that... :-)

More from Larry Wall

  1. Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
  2. I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
  3. It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
  4. It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
  5. I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
  6. A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
  7. Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
  8. How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?

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