[199709241628.JAA08908@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Larry Wall:
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Larry Wall: Citations en anglais
“It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.”
[199801151836.KAA14656@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
[199706251602.JAA01786@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[1991Aug22.220929.6857@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?”
"Perl, the First Postmodern Computer Language", perl.com, 1999-03-09 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/03/pm.html#jump5
Other
“It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.”
[199710221721.KAA24321@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[199710141738.KAA22289@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4
In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>.
Other
“Perl programming is an *empirical* science!”
[10226@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo”
[199710311916.LAA19760@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11
[10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
[199809041918.MAA06850@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.”
[1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
“That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.Life is ridiculous.”
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
[199801081824.KAA29602@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.”
[8854@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
[1992Jan17.005405.16806@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
[199807171819.LAA13771@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Perl should remain fast and intuitive”
to the extent that it is :-
[199804151704.KAA12290@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.”
[199710161841.LAA13208@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“So… Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us."”
We'll get to that.
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"
[199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[199709020026.RAA08431@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers…”
[199710091434.HAA00838@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.”
[199804161810.LAA18902@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998