Larry Wall
Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... :-)
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. :-)
I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. :-)
I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.
: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>
I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough. :-)
Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. :-)
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!