Larry Wall Quotes on Risk
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Optimizations always bust things, because all optimizations are, in the long haul, a form of cheating, and cheaters eventually get caught.