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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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.
Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Portability should be the default.
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.
P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
The following two statements are usually both true:
There's not enough documentation.
There's too much documentation.
You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.
No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice.
(yet)
That should probably be written:
no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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.
And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.