Frases de Larry Wall

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

“Las nuevas versiones suceden.”

“Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature”

“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

“Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.”

“A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.”

“Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady…”

“For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.”

“It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.”

“Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.”

“You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?”

“But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!”

“switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die; }”

“In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.”

“The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.”

“Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP has never really catered to mere mortals… And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven LISP for not catering to them.”

“And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).”

“If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [ sic] darn shortcut you can.”

“If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that…”

“In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.”

“Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.”

“Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.”

“It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me…”

“I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [ sic] anymore.”

“When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.”

“The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.”

“There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.”

“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

“The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.”

“There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.”

“I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.”