Larry Wall - Perl Quotes

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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.

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

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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language.

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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

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It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip...

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So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.

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So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.

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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

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

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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.

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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

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

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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?

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

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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)

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

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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

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