Larry Wall quotes - page 5

... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. (Larry Wall)
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose). View quote
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. View quote
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? View quote
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. View quote
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. View quote
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [ sic] darn shortcut you can. View quote
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over. View quote
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room. View quote
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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin. View quote
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code. (Larry Wall)
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. View quote
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs. View quote
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses. View quote
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I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it. View quote
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Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations. View quote
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy. View quote
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U. S. View quote
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit. View quote
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? View quote
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... (Larry Wall)
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read. View quote
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. View quote
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Beauty What's that. View quote
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... Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, "If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you." Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course. View quote
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