Quote #11

I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.

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  1. I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
  2. It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
  3. If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally... :-)
  4. It's all magic. :-)
  5. (To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're f…
  6. It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
  7. Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG? Larry Wall: Let's call it an acc…
  8. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)

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