Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
Accidental stacks considered harmful. - Larry Wall
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
- Larry Wall
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. - Larry Wall
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
The autodecrement is not magical. - Larry Wall
The autodecrement is not magical.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything. - Larry Wall
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want. - Larry Wall
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Laziness is a programmers main virtue. - Larry Wall
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
People get annoyed when you try to debug them. - Larry Wall
People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. - Larry Wall
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
A good messenger expects to get shot. - Larry Wall
A good messenger expects to get shot.
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