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“There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.”

Larry Wall

[1991Jun24.231628.14446@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

Time

“Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”

Larry Wall

[199809260112.SAA17178@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b.”

Larry Wall

[199710221731.KAA24396@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.”

Larry Wall

[1991May31.181659.28817@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.”

Larry Wall

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

“Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.”

Larry Wall

[199710221718.KAA24299@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.”

Larry Wall

In the perl man page regarding chroot(2).
Documentation

“tt>tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */</tt”

Larry Wall

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

“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”

Larry Wall

Amazon.com Interview: Larry Wall http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=7137.
Other

“Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.”

Larry Wall

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

Law

“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

Help

“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

People

“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

History

“Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly…”

Larry Wall

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

Suffering

“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 */</tt”

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

Feeling , Time

“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