Larry Wall Quotes

Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

It's documented in The Book, somewhere...

It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.

I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.

I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.

If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...

(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.

Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?
Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.

I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...

I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.

Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.

Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.

Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.