Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
Remember though that
THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
...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.
The following two statements are usually both true:
There's not enough documentation.
There's too much documentation.
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. :-)
...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.
Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)
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.
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. :-)
: - cut in regexps
I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud. :-)