Larry Wall Quotes

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

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

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

<code>if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */</code>

<code>#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */</code>

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.

[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.

If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

They can always run stderr through uniq.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...
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And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.