Larry Wall Quotes

Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.

You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.

I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.

I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works.

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

<code>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */</code>

Even the White House has a press agent.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

<code>break; /* don't do magic till later */</code>

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.

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

<code>echo 'Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a...'
echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in.</code>

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.