Larry Wall Quotes

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

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

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.

Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.

Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.

No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway...

<code><nowiki>last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'</nowiki></code>
That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...

Just don't create a file called -rf.

I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.

If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...