Larry Wall Quotes

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

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

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

I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...

No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

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

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

That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

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

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

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.