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Larry Wall
302 quotes
“Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.”
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“And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.”
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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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“Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.”
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“Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.”
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“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
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“I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...”
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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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“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”
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“If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...”
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“I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.”
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“I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.”
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“It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.”
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“It's all magic.”
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“It's documented in The Book, somewhere...”
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“It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...”
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“Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution). Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.”
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“Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...”
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“Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature”
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“Perl programming is an *empirical* science!”
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“Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.”
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“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
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“The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.”
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“There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...”
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“There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.”
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“Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...”
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“What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?”
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“You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?”
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“All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...”
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“Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...”
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“Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.”
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“Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*...”
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“If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...”
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“In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.”
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“I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.”
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“It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.”
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“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...”
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“Just don't create a file called -rf.”
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“last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...”
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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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“Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.”
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“Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.”
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“There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.”
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“We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.”
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“... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.”
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“And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).”
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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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“But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.”
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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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“If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.”
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