Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. :-)
: - cut in regexps
I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason. :-)
That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. :-)
The following two statements are usually both true:
There's not enough documentation.
There's too much documentation.
...Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, "If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you." Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Remember though that
THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...
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And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding. :-)
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies. :-)
Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...