Larry Wall Quotes
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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 someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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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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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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Beauty? What's that?
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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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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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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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.