Quote #309

I knew I'd hate COBOL the moment I saw they'd used 'perform' instead of 'do'.

More from Larry Wall

  1. May you do Good Magic with Perl.
  2. But we can both blame it all on Henry.
  3. It's the Magic that counts.
  4. Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it.
  5. Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
  6. If ease of use was the highest goal, we'd all be driving golf carts.
  7. Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible t…
  8. (Presuming for the sake of argument that it's even *possible* to design better code in Perl than in C. :-)

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