Larry Wall Quotes
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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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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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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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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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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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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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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Beauty? What's that?
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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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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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.