Diagonal Quote by Larry Wall Download Open image “At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.” — Larry Wall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diagonal Language Levels Perl
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
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
“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.” — Keith Bostic Copy Share Image
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
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.” — Mike Loukides Copy Share Image
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has… — Erik Naggum 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
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin… — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its… — Plato Copy Share Image
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
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