Larry Wall Quotes
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If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).
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And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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It's 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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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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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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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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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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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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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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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip...
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?