Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). … - Larry Wall

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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

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

If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. - Larry Wall

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