"Apocalypse 5: Regular Expressions", perl.com, 2001-06-04 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html?page=6 <br class="br">Other <br class="br">Variant: &hellip; I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.

“If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.”

Larry Wall

[199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)”

Larry Wall

Usenet postings, 1997

“I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.”

Larry Wall

[199806232054.NAA01735@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.”

Larry Wall

[199806201726.KAA26569@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.”

Larry Wall

[199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly…”

Larry Wall

[2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.”

Larry Wall

[199710211647.JAA17957@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“tt>/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */

Larry Wall

cmd.c.
Source code, Other files

“Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.”

Larry Wall

[1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)…(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat…”

Larry Wall

[1991Apr29.072206.5621@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991