Quote #257

Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell. :-)

More from Larry Wall

  1. You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
  2. /* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */
  3. There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm …
  4. That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now. Life is ridiculous.
  5. OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
  6. [End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
  7. echo $package has manual pages available in source form. echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.
  8. /* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */

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