Larry Wall: Trending quotes (page 9)

“tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */</tt”

Larry Wall

doio.c.
Source code, Other files

“As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.”

Larry Wall

[199709081854.LAA20830@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Optimism

“The autodecrement is not magical.”

Larry Wall

In the perl man page.
Documentation

“… an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.”

Larry Wall

[1992Nov9.195250.23584@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

Feeling , Strong

“It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.”

Larry Wall

[199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor.”

Larry Wall

Working on Perl, of course. [199807211548.IAA26184@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that…”

Larry Wall

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

“I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(”

Larry Wall

[199710290036.QAA01818@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”

Larry Wall

In the perl man page.
Documentation

“In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.”

Larry Wall

In the perl man page.
Documentation

“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”

Larry Wall

[199710011752.KAA21624@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Hope , Error

“Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix.”

Larry Wall

[1994Apr6.184419.3687@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994

Nature

“But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)”

Larry Wall

Usenet postings, 1998

People , Thinking , Learning

“And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally…”

Larry Wall

[20031217195433.GB31020@wall.org, 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003

Optimism

“tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */</tt”

Larry Wall

doarg.c.
Source code, Other files

“No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.”

Larry Wall

[199705102042.NAA00851@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.”

Larry Wall

[199702221943.LAA20388@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'</tt”

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“Portability should be the default.”

Larry Wall

[199711072201.OAA01123@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”

Larry Wall

[199801141725.JAA07555@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998