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“I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI. pm, we're probably okay.”

Larry Wall

[199804161805.LAA18882@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

World

“If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.”

Larry Wall

[199710050130.SAA04762@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be strict in how they speak, and liberal in how they listen. You'd think that would also be obvious. Instead, we're taught to express ourselves.”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, "2nd State of the Onion"

People , Way , Communication , Understanding

“Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[ a-z] \n[ a-z]/s//_/'…but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.”

Larry Wall

[6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Idea

“Reserve your abuse for your true friends.”

Larry Wall

[199712041852.KAA19364@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/”

Larry Wall

[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

People

“Oh, wait, that was Randal…nevermind…”

Larry Wall

[199709261754.KAA23761@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Waiting

“As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.”

Larry Wall

"Developers can unwrap Perl 6 on Christmas", Infoworld, 2015-12-21 http://www.infoworld.com/article/3017418/application-development/developers-can-unwrap-perl-6-on-christmas.html
Other

“We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.”

Larry Wall

[1991Nov13.194420.28091@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.”

Larry Wall

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

People , Understanding

“If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero”

Larry Wall

[199711100226.SAA12549@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.”

Larry Wall

[199709081801.LAA20629@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.”

Larry Wall

[199806241734.KAA09652@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“tt>stab_val(stab)-> str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */</tt”

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>stab.c</code>

“I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.”

Larry Wall

[7865@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.”

Larry Wall

[199811242253.OAA28167@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something…hmm…yes…I've got it…there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.”

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.”

Larry Wall

[199704051723.JAA28035@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Money

“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”

Larry Wall

[199710161841.LAA13208@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Law , Light

“Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*…”

Larry Wall

[1991Nov7.200504.25280@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991