Larry Wall Quotes
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.
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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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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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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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You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
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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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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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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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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
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: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...
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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...