The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer. — 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
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — 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
