Quote #51
> (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.
More from Larry Wall
- 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 he…
- Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
- Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendi…
- 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. :-)
- There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
- Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
- ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
- But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.