The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall Quotes
born 1954 United States
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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Also known as: Larry wall, Wall, Larry
257 quotes
When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.
A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Larry Wall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.