Quote #187
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
More from Larry Wall
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- I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're pr…
- Even the White House has a press agent. :-)
- Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable. :-)
- Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
- I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
- I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. :-)
- Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!