Larry Wall Quotes
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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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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
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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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Boxed Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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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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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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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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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 you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
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Help save the world!
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
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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 wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.