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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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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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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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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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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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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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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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.