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drhyde (1683)
Saturday June 16, 2007
06:10 AM
Building perl, hunting bugs
I built perl 5.8.8 today from source, on a machine where I've done this successfully several times before. Some of the tests failed, so I ran the failing tests by hand to see if I could figger out what the hell was going on. They passed. Running 'make test' again, they all passed.
GOD DAMN WERNER HEISENBERG!
When I mumbled about this on irc, pjcj pointed out that "perl is designed to make you doubt your sanity".
So GOD DAMN H.P.LOVECRAFT TOO!
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Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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Don't you mean... (Score:1)
I really like his stories...
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… but I’ve seen it four times from you within a short timeframe and it chafes me greatly every time, so I have to say something, though I promise I’m only going to say it this once:
The correct way to spell that word is “figure” – you wanted to see if you could figure out what the hell was going on.
Thanks for listening. Carry on.
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