Larry Wall Quotes
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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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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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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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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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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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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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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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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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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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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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That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.