Quotes of the week

[Posted April 6, 2010 by corbet]

Q: O Great Rabbi, Perl has so many precedence laws I feel I shall never learn them all. Which is the most important of these commandments?

A: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, the First Commandment is the Law of Algebraic Precedence:

#1 MULTIPLICATIVE OPERATORS BIND MORE TIGHTLY THAN ADDITIVE ONES.

The Second Commandment is to think of those who come after you, most preferably before they do so:

#2 DON'T BE A DAMNED FOOL: OTHERWISE USE PARENTHESES!

Follow these two Commandments and all the days of your life will be blessed, for your code shall be ever right[eous] and all shall love you for it.

-- Tom Christiansen

Since Emacs is just an editor, not a god, it cannot do miracles.

--Richard Stallman

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 8, 2010 2:14 UTC (Thu) by kjp (guest, #39639) [Link] (1 responses)

The perl one is epic. It's great to see QOTW in this section.

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 8, 2010 14:47 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

rms's is depressing. The high pontiff of the Church of Emacs saying that Emacs cannot do miracles, when all who use it see evidence to the contrary with their own eyes, all the time?