Larry Wall Quotes
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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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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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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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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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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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.