Larry Wall Quotes
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Larry Wall Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world
at least up until Haskell came along.
at least up until Haskell came along.
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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.
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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.
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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?
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally ...
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died ...
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.
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.
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;, and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
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
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P', ... ). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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.
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language
the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.