The first production language I ever wrote was an
inside-out language where control commands were embedded in text that
was to be output by default.
-- Larry Wall
in
perl6-language.
Yes, this is true:
everyone begins by writing his own templating module.
Perhaps?
jonasbn on 2004-02-04T18:19:25
Perhaps in the age of the Internet, didn't people use to write their own 'database' systems, so they could keep track of addresses, records and groups of scouts?
I have seen quite a few of those in Comal 80 and similar
;)
Re:Perhaps?
jplindstrom on 2004-02-04T18:54:47
Comal? Wasn't that the Pascal on the Compis computers solely used in schools?
I thought that was a bad idea only implemented in Swedish schools?
Another Larry Wall Quote
DAxelrod on 2004-02-05T01:08:51
Personally, I like this part of the message:
A compiler must absolutely never emit an inaccurate line
number if it can help it.
This is a great Wallism.
Re:Another Larry Wall Quote
rafael on 2004-02-05T07:20:26
This is not (at all) the case of Perl 5, though. I'm aware of at least two different bugs in line number reporting.
