Frases de Larry Wall

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“Los verdaderos programadores pueden escribir código ensamblador en cualquier lenguaje.”

“Las nuevas versiones suceden.”

“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”

“Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.”

“tt>str-> str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */s = (unsigned char*)(str-> str_ptr); /* deeper magic */</tt”

“tt>/* And you'll never guess what the dog had *//* in its mouth… */</tt”

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

“Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?”

“There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.”

“We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.”

“I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.”

“tt>echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';;</tt”

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

“But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.”

“Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.”

“Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.”

“Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.”

“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”

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

“Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.”

“Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.”

“There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.”

“Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”

“The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b.”

“Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.”

“It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.”

“Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.”

“Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.”

“tt>tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */</tt”

“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”

“Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.”