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Ask Larry Wall

Posted by Roblimo on from the from-the-master's-mouth-to-your-ear dept.

About what? Perl is probably a good topic choice. No one knows more about Perl than Larry Wall, right? We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Larry by email, and post his answers when we get them back. Note: Due to Slashdot's line length restrictions, lines of code over 50 characters long may not display correctly. Please be aware of this if you include code samples in your question.

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  1. Re:How many ducks by HimalayanRoadblock · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well you see people with cars have these little houses to put them in called, garages. A 2 car garage holds 2 cars. He's asking how many ducks fit in a 2 car garage. It's a math equation and it appears he's trying to use the power of slashdot to do his homework. Honestly though, don't you ever read the polls? If you use Slashdot information for anything important, yer crazy.

  2. Talk among yourselves... by NearlyHeadless · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I will give you a topic: Perl-compatible regular expressions are neither regular nor perl-compatible; discuss.


    Seriously, man, we've got PCRE's in javascript, Python, Ruby, XML schema, etc. But now Perl 6 is going to have yet another syntax! Are you sure you want to do this?


    Maybe this is another question, but perhaps Perl 6 should actually be called something besides Perl?

  3. Re:but you contradict yourself by elmegil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    arg. PREVIEW. "without having to use <

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