Quote #174
Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
More from Larry Wall
- Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
- There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
- If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero
- Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
- Portability should be the default.
- Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
- And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
- It's hard to tune heavily tuned code. :-)