Quote #86

P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...

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  1. No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
  2. You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. :-)
  3. Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets …
  4. 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. :-)
  5. Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
  6. I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)
  7. The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
  8. True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.

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