Quote #40
Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-)
More from Larry Wall
- No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)
- Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it. :-)
- last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&$1ge$1&&$1lt$2' That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)
- There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenie…
- Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
- We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
- I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble... :-)
- ... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.