Frases de Larry Wall

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

“Las nuevas versiones suceden.”

“I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble”

“This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.”

“tt>echo $package has manual pages available in source form.echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.</tt”

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

“OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you…”

“There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.”

“I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.”

“It may be possible to get this condition from within Perl if a signal handler runs at just the wrong moment. Another point for Chip…”

“What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?”

“That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.”

“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.”

“Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.”

“Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions? I'm still working on the Unicode mods.”

“print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution”

“And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.”

“tt>double value; /* or your money back! */short changed; /* so triple your money back! */</tt”

“Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.”

“I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.”

“Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?”

“P. S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight…”

“The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.”

“The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.”

“tt>/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */</tt”

“Even the White House has a press agent.”

“And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.”

“Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality…”

“Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.”

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

“Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations…Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'…Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.”