Larry Wall Quotes

I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually
right.

I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

There's often more than one correct thing.
There's often more than one right thing.
There's often more than one obvious thing.

: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .] Gee, it took me about eleven years.

print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution

Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.

I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.

Even the White House has a press agent.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

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

To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.