Larry Wall Quotes
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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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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
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Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
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print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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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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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.
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Odd that we think definitions are definitive.