Perl Quotes

27 quotes by 6 authors

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. — Alan Kay
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. — Larry Wall
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl. — Larry Wall
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? — Larry Wall
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because… — Larry Wall
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes… — Larry Wall
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… — Larry Wall
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by… — Larry Wall
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
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. — Larry Wall
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 within… — Larry Wall
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a… — Larry Wall
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. — Larry Wall
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall
Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job. — Bruce Eckel
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform)… — Larry Wall
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. — Larry Wall
The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send… — Larry Wall

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