Perl Quote by Larry Wall Download Open image “Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.” — Larry Wall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Perl Purpose
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
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… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way… — 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
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — 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
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 have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
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 Image
Having observed his market calls real time over the years, I can say that Jason Perl's application of the DeMark Indicators distinguishes his work… — Leon G. Cooperman Copy Share Image
Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
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