Quote #211
Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
More from Larry Wall
- I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)
- On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
- Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go. :-)
- Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
- : What do people think? What, do people think? :-)
- That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
- It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket... [...] And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding. :-)
- If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.