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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.
To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
The autodecrement is not magical.
Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.