Larry Wall Quotes
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Help save the world!
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)
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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.