Larry Wall Quotes
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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It's all magic.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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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 ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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Be consistent.
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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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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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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.