Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards? :-)
: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).
Flutter, flutter.
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Perl will always provide the null.
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
echo 'Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a...'
echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in.
Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... :-)
If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.