Larry Wall Quotes
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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'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language-the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
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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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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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I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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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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Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
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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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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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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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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.