Quote #196

I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually right.

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  1. I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
  2. I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
  3. There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.
  4. The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. :-)
  5. : I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .] Gee, it took me about eleven years. :-)
  6. Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
  7. print rand rand rand 1, ' '; # interesting distribution
  8. : Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR> I'm still working on the Unicode mods.

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