Larry Wall Quotes
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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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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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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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How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...