Larry Wall Quotes
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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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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.
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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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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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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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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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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.
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.