A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job. — Bruce Eckel Copy Share Image
Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark Indicators distinguishes… — Leon G. Cooperman Copy Share Image
I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
![“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.” quote by Larry Wall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df5/larry-wall-1576_balls_boxed-multiple-bouncing-balls-in-a-box-a_640682.jpg)
![“[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.” quote by Jamie Zawinski](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/529/jamie-zawinski-16110_aspect_perl-combines-all-the-worst-aspects-of-c_2610418.jpg)
![“[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.” quote by Larry Wall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e43/larry-wall-1576_comment_perl-gives-you-the-stderr-filehandle-so_1697563.png)
