Quote #12
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
More from Larry Wall
- I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
- It's all magic. :-)
- I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
- It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
- If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally... :-)
- It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
- (To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're f…
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