Larry Wall Quotes

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

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

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

<code>str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */
s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */</code>

Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet)

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

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.

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.