I’m afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn’t cut it in the emergency room.
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Orthogonality for orthogonality’s sake is not something I’m keen on.
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
There’s some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
If any ideology is so serious that you can’t have fun while you’re doing it, it’s probably too serious.
Though I’ll admit readability suffers slightly...
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that’s great.
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It’s a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it’s more expressive.
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It’s limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.
For the sake of argument I’ll ignore all your fighting words.
Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That’s what it’s paid to do, after all.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
Accidental stacks considered harmful.