Larry Wall Quotes

The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.

Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?

The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video).

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.

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

Okay, that's definitely enough hype.

But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

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

That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns...