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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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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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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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How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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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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Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
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(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...
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I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
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Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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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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