Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.