Larry Wall Quotes

I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.

What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?

It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...

And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.

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?

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

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

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.

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

Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually
right.

If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.

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