Quote #25
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
More from Larry Wall
- There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It ma…
- What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? :-)
- There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexit…
- You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)
- The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors. :-)
- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... :-)
- Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
- Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)