"... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings……" — Larry Wall
"... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer."
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159 Quotes by Larry Wall
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- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
- Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
- Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
- Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
- Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
- It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
- Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
- 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.…
- The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to…
- We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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