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Larry Wall is American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl. Explore interesting quotes on use.

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“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

“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 <br class="br">Other

“That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.”

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“So… Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us."”

Larry Wall

We'll get to that.
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

“I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.”

Larry Wall

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

“That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[ eE] xp?|RE... Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns…”

Larry Wall

[199710171838.LAA24968@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.”

Larry Wall

[1994Nov12.013919.21133@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994

“I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs.”

Larry Wall

[199804140117.SAA02006@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“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

“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

“…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

“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

“Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U. S.”

Larry Wall

[199809300035.RAA12495@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.”

Larry Wall

[7874@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“tt>#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */

Larry Wall

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

“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

“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

“But you could do extreme programming. In fact, I had a college buddy I did pair programming with. We took a compiler writing class together and studied all that fancy stuff from the dragon book. Then of course the professor announced we would be implementing our own language, called PL/0. After thinking about it a while, we announced that we were going to do our project in BASIC. The professor looked at us like we were insane. Nobody else in the class was using BASIC. And you know what? Nobody else in the class finished their compiler either. We not only finished but added I/O extensions, and called it PL 0.5. That's rapid prototyping.”

Larry Wall

Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11

“Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory.”

Larry Wall

[199710221744.KAA24484@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally…”

Larry Wall

[7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990