Larry Wall Quotes on Maintenance
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There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it. :-)
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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code. :-)
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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.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */
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tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell. :-)
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if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */
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Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it.