Computer Quote by 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…

— Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

— Larry Wall

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for…

— 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…

— Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's…

— Larry Wall

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

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

— Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

“you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but”

— Mark Lutz

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

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

— Larry Wall