Larry Wall Quotes
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Be consistent.
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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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 some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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. :-)
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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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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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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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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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.