“tt>echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
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“There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.”
Larry Wall buch Programming Perl
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, third edition, section 3.10.
Other
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"
[199710281816.KAA29614@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”
[199708040319.UAA16213@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing…”
[199711071819.KAA29909@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[7886@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */
doio.c.
Source code, Other files
[199709081854.LAA20830@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“The autodecrement is not magical.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“… an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.”
[1992Nov9.195250.23584@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
“It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.”
[199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Working on Perl, of course. [199807211548.IAA26184@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that…”
[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(”
[199710290036.QAA01818@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”
[199710011752.KAA21624@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[1994Apr6.184419.3687@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994
[20031217195433.GB31020@wall.org, 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003
“tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */
doarg.c.
Source code, Other files
[199705102042.NAA00851@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.”
[199702221943.LAA20388@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“Portability should be the default.”
[199711072201.OAA01123@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”
[199801141725.JAA07555@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
