Quote #110

I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.

More from Larry Wall

  1. As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that... :-)
  2. It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
  3. Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
  4. A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
  5. 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.
  6. How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
  7. I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
  8. Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

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