Larry Wall Quotes
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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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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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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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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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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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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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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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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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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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.