Frasi di Larry Wall

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“It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.”

“I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.”

“Besides, including < std_ice_cubes. h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there…”

“When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?”

“It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.”

“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”

“To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.”

“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.”

“Perl programming is an *empirical* science!”

“Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo”

“tt>/* now make a new head in the exact same spot */</tt”

“I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right… But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most.”

“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”

“Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.”

“You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.”

“That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.”

“Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.”

“The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.”

“If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.”

“Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations.”

“Perl should remain fast and intuitive”

“As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.”

“Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.”

“So… Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us."”

“I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.”

“The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.”

“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”

“Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers…”

“Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.”