Quote #54

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

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  1. Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendi…
  2. ...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.
  3. Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
  4. Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
  5. > (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.
  6. What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
  7. 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…
  8. You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)

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