Larry Wall Quotes

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

<code>echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';;</code>

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

<code>pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */</code>

Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.

I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.

So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.

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

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

... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.

Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.

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