Larry Wall Quotes on Flexibility
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. :-)
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive. :-)
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-)
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-)
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Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere, you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-)