Larry Wall Quotes
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
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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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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be 'All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us'. We'll get to that.
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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Beauty? What's that?
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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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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I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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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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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
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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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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.