Larry Wall Quotes
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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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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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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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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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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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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This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
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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.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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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.
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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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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo