“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
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“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”
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