Larry Wall Quotes
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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 think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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Beauty? What's that?
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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It's all magic.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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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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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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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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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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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 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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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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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.