Larry Wall Quotes

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

They can always run stderr through uniq.

That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.
Life is ridiculous.

<code>stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */</code>

Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as
'Unix'.

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?

Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature

There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP has never really catered to mere mortals... And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven LISP for not catering to them.

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.

And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.