Quote #78

I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.

More from Larry Wall

  1. Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
  2. We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)
  3. Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. :-)
  4. That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different …
  5. I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
  6. Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
  7. They can always run stderr through uniq. :-)
  8. The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

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