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I think it's a new feature. Do...

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I want people to use Perl. I w...

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

It is easier to port a shell t...

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Laziness is a programmers main...

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

'Lurking' is one metaphor th...

'Lurking' is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

As a linguist, I don't think o...

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

You can't change the past. You...

You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

If someone stinks, view it as ...

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Computer languages differ not ...

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Obviously I was either onto so...

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

A Perl program is correct if i...

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

The camel has evolved to be re...

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

The problem with using C++ ......

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

There's a saying in the softwa...

There's a saying in the software design industry: 'Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.'

Larry Wall 222 quotes

I'm a great believer in visual...

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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There's many scripting languag...

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

You don't have to know the who...

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

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So many computer languages try...

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Human languages tend to be muc...

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

Natural languages generally ar...

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, 'Oh, that's a cool way to say it,' and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Larry Wall 222 quotes

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