Larry Wall Quotes
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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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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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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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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.
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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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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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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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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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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.