Larry Wall Quotes on Coding
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die; }
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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print rand rand rand 1, ' '; # interesting distribution
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually right.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket... [...] And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding. :-)
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. :-)
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stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now. Life is ridiculous.