Larry Wall Quotes
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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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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 is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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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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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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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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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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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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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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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.