Quote #85
No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
More from Larry Wall
- Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets …
- P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
- Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
- You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. :-)
- The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
- I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture. :-)
- Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
- I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)