Larry Wall Quotes
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with 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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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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Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.
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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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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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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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Be consistent.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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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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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language-the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.