Larry Wall quotes - page 6

That should probably be written: no!@#$%^&*:@! semicolon. (Larry Wall)
[ End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]. View quote
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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. View quote
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Besides, including < std_ice_cubes. h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... View quote
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True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0. View quote
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [ Was that sufficiently incendiary?]. View quote
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it. View quote
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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto. View quote
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"tt>/* now make a new head in the exact same spot */. View quote
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I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right... But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most. View quote
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. (Larry Wall)
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. View quote
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Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable. View quote
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language. View quote
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell. View quote
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. View quote
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"tt>echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';. View quote
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Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. View quote
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. View quote
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Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. View quote
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"tt>tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */. (Larry Wall)
Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses. View quote
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"tt>/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */. View quote
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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... View quote
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous. View quote
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