When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.
I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)