Larry Wall Quotes
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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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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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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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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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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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.