Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.
(yet) :-)
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as
'Unix'.
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!
The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. :-)
The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'. :-)
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.
Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.
Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. :-)
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.
Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.