“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

—  Larry Wall

[1992Sep21.214659.22849@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi." by Larry Wall?
Larry Wall photo
Larry Wall 294
American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Related quotes

Peter Blake photo

“I can’t work with computers but I work with someone who can. We talk about what the subjects will be and then I get a load of images about Liverpool. We then scan them and put them on a disk and then we manipulate them on the computer. I am treating them as posters. They are prints but I want them to look like posters.”

Peter Blake (1932) British artist

Colin Serjent, "Blake's 08, http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve9/peter_blake.php Nerve, Autumn 2006
On producing serigraph prints to celebrate Liverpool as the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
Art

Van Morrison photo

“I've been travellin' a hard road
Baby lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come shining through
Someone like you
Make it all worth while
Someone like you
Make me satisfied
Someone exactly like you.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

Someone Like You
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)

“When someone is not free to do what they feel like doing, like every other person on the street, it causes depression which can even lead to death.”

Tope Alabi (1970) Nigerian Gospel artist

https://quotes.ng/mobile/author.php?title=tope-alabi&id=1290

Alfred Austin photo

“Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Savonarola (1881), Girolamo Savonarola in Act I, sc. iv; p. 49.

Greg McKeown (author) photo

“Effort and results do not share a linear relationship.”

Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Twitter

Michel Henry photo

“The culture is the whole of the enterprises and of the practices in which the abundance of life expresses itself, they all have as motivation the 'load', the 'over' which disposes inwardly the living subjectivity as a force ready to give unstintingly itself and constraint, under the load, to do it.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Michel Henry, La Barbarie, éd. Grasset, 1987, p. 172
Books on Culture and Barbarism, Barbarism (1987)
Original: (fr) La culture est l'ensemble des entreprises et des pratiques dans lesquelles s'exprime la surabondance de la vie, toutes elles ont pour motivation la « charge », le « trop » qui dispose intérieurement la subjectivité vivante comme une force prête à se prodiguer et contrainte, sous la charge, de le faire.

George Carlin photo

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Stephen King photo

“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Related topics