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
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I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.
Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.
At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually
right.
/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. *