Quote #307
It's the Magic that counts.
More from Larry Wall
- Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
- May you do Good Magic with Perl.
- I knew I'd hate COBOL the moment I saw they'd used 'perform' instead of 'do'.
- (Presuming for the sake of argument that it's even *possible* to design better code in Perl than in C. :-)
- But we can both blame it all on Henry.
- : 1. What is the possibility of this being added in the future? In the near future, the probability is close to zero. In the distant future…
- Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it.
- > This made me wonder, suddenly: can telnet be written in perl? Of course it can be written in Perl. Now if you'd said nroff, that would be…