Larry Wall Quotes
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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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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.
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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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Help save the world!
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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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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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
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It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
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Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.