Occasionally there are questions asked that seek to explain some soundbite of thing someone said or wrote.

These questions take a few sentences from a larger piece and ask what it means, or disprove it, or take two of them and ask which is right.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration --Dijkstra

I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right... But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most. -Wall

Does this mean that Perl is broken by design?

Why don't questions about blog posts, xkcd cartoons, and old letters make good questions?

Occasionally there are questions asked that seek to explain some soundbite of thing someone said or wrote.

These questions take a few sentences from a larger piece and ask what it means, or disprove it, or take two of them and ask which is right.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration --Dijkstra

I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right... But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most. -Wall

Does this mean that Perl is broken by design?

Why don't questions about blog posts, xkcd cartoons, and old letters make good questions?

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