You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? - Larry Wall

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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.

And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.

That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? - Larry Wall

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