Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. : -)
Larry Wall
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I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right.. But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most. : -)
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. : -)
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.
I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually right.
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. : -)
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