Larry Wall Quotes
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Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
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So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.
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They can always run stderr through uniq.
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Just don't create a file called -rf.
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Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars . . .
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types-in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...