Larry Wall Quotes
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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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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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
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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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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language-the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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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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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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Be consistent.
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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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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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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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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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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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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)