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Larry Wall
302 quotes
“If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.”
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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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“Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy...”
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“Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]”
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“There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.”
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“...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.”
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“Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.”
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“What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?”
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“You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.”
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“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”
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“Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.”
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“Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.”
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“Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.”
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“I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.”
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“I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.”
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“The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.”
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“If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.”
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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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“Odd that we think definitions are definitive.”
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“: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.(yet)”
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“I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.”
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“If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.”
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“So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.”
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“Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.”
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“They can always run stderr through uniq.”
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“I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.”
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“Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language.”
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“Call me bored, but don't call me boring.”
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“I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.”
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“We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.”
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“That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.”
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“Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).”
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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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“Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.”
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“Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.”
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“No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.”
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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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“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”
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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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“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”
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“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”
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“Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.”
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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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“Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?”
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“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”
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“Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.”
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“Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.”
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“Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.”
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“The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.”
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“The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.”
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