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in thread Perl's driving design principle

I tend to to take a more optimistic view of mankind, but YMMV.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Re^4: Perl's driving design principle
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 24, 2007 at 11:25 UTC
    Optimism: belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on insane.