Larry Wall Quotes
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...
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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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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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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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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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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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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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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip...
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
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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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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...