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6 Larry Wall Quotes on Portability

Larry Wall quotes on portability

  1. Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)

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  2. Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.

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  3. Portability should be the default.

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  4. The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. :-)

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  5. I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

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

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