Quote #83

Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

More from Larry Wall

  1. The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
  2. Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets …
  3. Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
  4. No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
  5. 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 …
  6. P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
  7. We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)
  8. You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. :-)

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