Larry Wall Quotes on Software design
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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity... :-)
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. :-)
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. :-)
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Q. Why is this so clumsy? A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses.
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> This made me wonder, suddenly: can telnet be written in perl? Of course it can be written in Perl. Now if you'd said nroff, that would be more challenging...