Quote #50
If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization. :-)
More from Larry Wall
- > (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.) Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
- If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason. :-)
- Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
- Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
- Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendi…
- But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
- There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
- : And it goes against the grain of building small tools. Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.