Larry Wall Quotes
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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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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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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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 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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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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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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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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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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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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.