Quote #9

If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally... :-)

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  1. (To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're f…
  2. I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
  3. Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG? Larry Wall: Let's call it an acc…
  4. I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
  5. I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
  6. It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
  7. I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. :-)
  8. It's all magic. :-)

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