Larry Wall quotes - page 9

There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. (Larry Wall)
Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak. View quote
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Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it. View quote
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Perl will always provide the null. View quote
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud. View quote
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere... View quote
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl? View quote
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This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit. View quote
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It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip... View quote
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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl. View quote
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is. (Larry Wall)
And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file. View quote
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Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL. View quote
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"tt>echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice. View quote
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There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic. View quote
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I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works. View quote
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(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing... View quote
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"tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */. View quote
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I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(. View quote
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"tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */. View quote
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"tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.' (Larry Wall)
They can always run stderr through uniq. View quote
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Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. View quote
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. View quote
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The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. View quote
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