Larry Wall Quotes
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
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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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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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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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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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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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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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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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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...