Quote #209

Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go. :-)

More from Larry Wall

  1. : What do people think? What, do people think? :-)
  2. I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)
  3. It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket... [...] And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding. :-)
  4. Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
  5. So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
  6. On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
  7. I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
  8. Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

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