Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
Larry Wall
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Perl should only be studied as a second language. A good first language would be English.
age language good english
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
death programming
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris
virtues laziness virtue impatience hubris
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.
architecture programming
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.
people history
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
people power
(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. : -)
people
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
sound people
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. : -/
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. : -)
P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight.. : -)
disaster people
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