Quote #215

If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.

More from Larry Wall

  1. That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
  2. So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.
  3. Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
  4. One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
  5. On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
  6. In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.' :-)
  7. Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
  8. Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

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