I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially… — 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
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
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
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar.… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — 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
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 Image
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble. — 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 a double-agent… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
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 Image
