Larry Wall Quotes
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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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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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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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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...
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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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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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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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How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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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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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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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.