A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. — 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
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
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works… — Larry Wall 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
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] 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
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself.… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“A couple of years ago, I ran into someone at a trade show who was representing the NSA (National Security Agency). He… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks,… — Larry Wall 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
“The best way to figure out what Perl is used for is to look at the ... Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (the… — 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
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last? — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share
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? — Larry Wall Copy Share
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent… — Larry Wall Copy Share
While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the… — Larry Wall Copy Share
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. — Larry Wall Copy Share
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to… — Larry Wall Copy Share
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
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![“The best way to figure out what Perl is used for is to look at the ... Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (the CPAN, for short). ... [Y]ou'll get the impression that Perl has interfaces to almost everything in the world. With a little thought, you may figure out the reason Perl has interfaces to…” quote by Larry Wall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ed0/larry-wall-1576_human-genome-project_the-best-way-to-figure-out-what-perl-is_621360.png)
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