Larry Wall: Trending quotes (page 6)

“If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous.”

Larry Wall

[199809111734.KAA28296@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“tt>#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */</tt”

Larry Wall

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

“All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory…”

Larry Wall

[1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway…”

Larry Wall

[1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“…this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.”

Larry Wall

[1992Aug6.221512.5963@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

Way

“Perl will always provide the null.”

Larry Wall

[199801151818.KAA14538@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.”

Larry Wall

[20031212010945.GB29594@wall.org, 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003

People , Understanding , Thinking

“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble…”

Larry Wall

[11333@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all…”

Larry Wall

[10160@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Books

“It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.”

Larry Wall

[199811242326.PAA28495@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.”

Larry Wall

[199804150050.RAA08093@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

Thinking

“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”

Larry Wall

[199706242038.NAA29853@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“tt>break; /* don't do magic till later */</tt”

Larry Wall

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

“Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy…”

Larry Wall

[1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“It's documented in The Book, somewhere…”

Larry Wall

[10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Books

“Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?”

Larry Wall

[199708012226.PAA22015@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.”

Larry Wall

[9682@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Way

“Because. doesn't match \n. [ \0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.”

Larry Wall

[9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

Way

“I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to.”

Larry Wall

That, and the Underwood typewriter...
[199808050415.VAA24026@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.”

Larry Wall

[199806221558.IAA07251@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998