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
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. — 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
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. — 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
