Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */
…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
*** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'.
if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. :-)
I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually
right.
On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
: What do people think?
What, do people think? :-)
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
double value; /* or your money back! */
short changed; /* so triple your money back! */
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)
Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-)
Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)