7 Larry Wall Quotes on Compatibility

Larry Wall quotes on compatibility

35. It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)

42. There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. :-)

113. How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?

188. I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

248. echo 'Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a...' echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in.

251. echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'

300. It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.