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Larry Wall
302 quotes
“Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.”
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“You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.”
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“There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.”
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“It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.”
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“Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.”
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“The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.”
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“Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.”
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“People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.”
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“For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.”
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“Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.”
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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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“Beauty? What's that?”
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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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“I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(”
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“Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.”
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“: - cut in regexpsI don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...”
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“Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.”
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“Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo”
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“Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?”
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“(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...”
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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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“Portability should be the default.”
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“If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero”
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“Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?”
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“Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.”
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“There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.”
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“Reserve your abuse for your true friends.”
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“Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.”
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“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”
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“Perl will always provide the null.”
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“It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.”
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“Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.”
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“To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.”
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“I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.”
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“Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...”
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“Even the White House has a press agent.”
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“That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.”
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“Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)”
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“I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.”
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“Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.”
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“I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?”
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“Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!”
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“print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution”
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“: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .]Gee, it took me about eleven years.”
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“There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.”
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“I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.”
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“I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.”
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“I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.”
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“The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.”
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“Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.”
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