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“How do you type it? With your keyboard.”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

“Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory.”

Larry Wall

[199710221744.KAA24484@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Memory

“If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally…”

Larry Wall

[7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket…[…]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding.”

Larry Wall

[199808071717.KAA12628@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars...”

Larry Wall

[199710011704.KAA21395@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Money

“I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?”

Larry Wall

[199808050009.RAA22631@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Thinking

“Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.”

Larry Wall

[199709291631.JAA08648@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

People

“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 within ActiveState.”

Larry Wall

[199807172334.QAA18255@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Thinking

“Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.”

Larry Wall

[199809031634.JAA26895@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp. lang. misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.”

Larry Wall

[1992Mar5.180926.19041@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

Thinking , Help

“Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature”

Larry Wall

[2609@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

Larry Wall

[199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Thinking , Reading

“Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.”

Larry Wall

[199710161537.IAA07828@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.”

Larry Wall

[199709041935.MAA27136@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady…”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11

“For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.”

Larry Wall

[199710221710.KAA24242@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Fight

“It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.”

Larry Wall

[7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Exercises

“Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.”

Larry Wall

[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?”

Larry Wall

[7349@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990