The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

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

[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.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.