Quote #82
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
More from Larry Wall
- Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
- Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
- 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 …
- Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets …
- We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)
- No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
- I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
- P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...