Larry Wall Quotes
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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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So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be 'All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us'. We'll get to that.
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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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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Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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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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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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So I'm thinking about ??, or !!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like ?? the best so far. Or the least worst.
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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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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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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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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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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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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.