Quote #188

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 probably okay.

More from Larry Wall

  1. Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
  2. Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable. :-)
  3. That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough. :-)
  4. 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?
  5. Even the White House has a press agent. :-)
  6. Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
  7. Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
  8. print rand rand rand 1, ' '; # interesting distribution

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