Larry Wall Quotes
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.
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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.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.
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Perl will always provide the null.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.