The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.
The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.
Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc. , just because he wants speed.
Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.
I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology
I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.
. . . weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.