Frases de Larry Wall

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

“Las nuevas versiones suceden.”

“Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.”

“There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.”

“(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)”

“I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works.”

“tt>echo 'Hmmm…you don't have Berkeley networking in libc. a…'echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in.</tt”

“I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.”

“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”

“(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing…”

“There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity…”

“tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */</tt”

“As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.”

“The autodecrement is not magical.”

“… an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.”

“It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.”

“The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor.”

“As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that…”

“I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(”

“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”

“In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.”

“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”

“Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix.”

“But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)”

“And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally…”

“tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */</tt”

“No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.”

“I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.”

“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'</tt”

“Portability should be the default.”

“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”