Frases de Larry Wall

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

“Las nuevas versiones suceden.”

“Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)”

“I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.”

“There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.”

“The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.”

“Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly…”

“Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.”

“tt>/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */</tt”

“Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.”

“last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)…(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat…”

“If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous.”

“tt>#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */</tt”

“All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory…”

“No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway…”

“…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.”

“Perl will always provide the null.”

“One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.”

“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble…”

“It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all…”

“It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.”

“That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.”

“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”

“tt>break; /* don't do magic till later */</tt”

“Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy…”

“It's documented in The Book, somewhere…”

“Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?”

“Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.”

“Because. doesn't match \n. [ \0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.”

“I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to.”

“I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.”