Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
That should probably be written:
no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so. :-)
I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing... :-)
Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers... :-)
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip... :-)
Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).