Larry Wall Quotes
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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Perl will always provide the null.
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Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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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.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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switch (ref $@) OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die;
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.