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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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.
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.
There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.
I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.