Larry Wall Quotes
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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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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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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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 note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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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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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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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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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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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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And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.