Larry Wall Quotes

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.

Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

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 dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.

: - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...

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!

[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]

'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.

<code>echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.</code>

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.