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“If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, The State of the Onion 10

Problem

“Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.”

Larry Wall

[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Life , Hope

“… Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, "If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you." Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course.”

Larry Wall

ibid.
Other

People , Communication , Cooking

“It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.”

Larry Wall

Regarding 10_000_000 [11556@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.”

Larry Wall

[199809041612.JAA05556@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.”

Larry Wall

[199808050415.VAA24026@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

People , Thinking

“That should probably be written: no!@#$%^&*:@! semicolon”

Larry Wall

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

“Just don't create a file called -rf.”

Larry Wall

[11393@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“[ End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming…]”

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

“It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.”

Larry Wall

[199709241628.JAA08908@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Life , Travel

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

Larry Wall

[199801151836.KAA14656@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Problem

“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.”

Larry Wall

[199706251602.JAA01786@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Thinking

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

Larry Wall

[1991Aug22.220929.6857@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

Error

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

Larry Wall

"Perl, the First Postmodern Computer Language", perl.com, 1999-03-09 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/03/pm.html#jump5
Other

Time

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

Larry Wall

[199710221721.KAA24321@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

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

Larry Wall

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

Falseness

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

Larry Wall

[199710141738.KAA22289@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“[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.”

Larry Wall

"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4
In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>.
Other

People , Communication , Box

“Perl programming is an *empirical* science!”

Larry Wall

[10226@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Science