More from Larry Wall

  1. It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
  2. It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
  3. I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
  4. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
  5. I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
  6. Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z] [a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solu…
  7. If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally... :-)
  8. Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)

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