Larry Wall Quotes
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P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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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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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 want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
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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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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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Beauty? What's that?
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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, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.