Larry Wall Quotes
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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It's all magic.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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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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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
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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?