Quote #28
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... :-)
More from Larry Wall
- You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)
- Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)
- What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? :-)
- Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)
- Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
- Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... :-)
- 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…
- If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that... :-)