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Language Quotes by Larry Wall
- Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
- Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
- The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
- The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can…
- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
- Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the…
- Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
- The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
- Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
- Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
- Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad…
- When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted…
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