Frases célebres de Larry Wall
Larry Wall: Frases en inglés
“tt>echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.”
Larry Wall libro Programming Perl
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, third edition, section 3.10.
Other
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"
“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing…”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */
doio.c.
Source code, Other files
“The autodecrement is not magical.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
Working on Perl, of course. [[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */
doarg.c.
Source code, Other files
“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“Portability should be the default.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998