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Perl Quotes by Larry Wall
- 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.
- What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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?
- Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
- Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
- 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…
- 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…
- Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
- It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
- As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
- [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)…
- Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
- 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…
- Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
- I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is...
More Perl Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Larry Wall
- I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So,… — 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… — Larry Wall
- When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself.… — Larry Wall