Larry Wall Quotes
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
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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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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.
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...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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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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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.