Larry Wall Quotes

(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...

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

Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo

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.

Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.

I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

Beauty? What's that?

The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.

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

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

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

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

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