If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 int… - Larry Wall

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If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero

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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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If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero - Larry Wall

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