Larry Wall Quotes
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
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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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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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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language.
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Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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Even the White House has a press agent.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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 some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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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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Be consistent.
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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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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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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.