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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/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible *
/* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats *
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language.
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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.
I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]