Larry Wall Quotes

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.

Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.

(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.

If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions? I'm still working on the Unicode mods.

<code>tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */</code>

There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...

: - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...

Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!
Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...
Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?
Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...
Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.