Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies. :-)
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
But you could do extreme programming. In fact, I had a college buddy I did pair programming with. We took a compiler writing class together and studied all that fancy stuff from the dragon book. Then of course the professor announced we would be implementing our own language, called PL/0. After thinking about it a while, we announced that we were going to do our project in BASIC. The professor looked at us like were insane. Nobody else in the class was using BASIC. And you know what? Nobody else in the class finished their compiler either. We not only finished but added I/O extensions, and called it PL 0.5. That's rapid prototyping.
If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally... :-)
It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
How do you type it? With your keyboard.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing... :-)
> (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.
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 getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
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.
That should probably be written:
no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon