Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. :-)
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.
If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization. :-)
Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call. :-)
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
Because . doesn't match
. [ -377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe e should match everything. And E would of course match nothing. :-)
Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.
Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0? :-)
I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)
I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)
I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.