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Larry Wall Quotes (1954-)
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About Larry Wall
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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“Hey, if pi 0?”
“Be consistent.”
“It's all magic.”
“The autodecrement is not magical.”
“Portability should be the default.”
“Just don't create a file called -rf.”
“I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...”
“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”
“Accidental stacks considered harmful.”
“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”
“How do you type it? With your keyboard.”
“They can always run stderr through uniq.”
“Call me bored, but don't call me boring.”
“It's documented in The Book, somewhere...”
“Perl programming is an *empirical* science!”
“I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.”
“Odd that we think definitions are definitive.”
Larry Wall Quotes by Topic
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Larry Wall on Perl 6 quotes
“A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.”
Larry Wall on Programming 2 quotes
“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.”
Larry Wall on Lisp (programming language) 2 quotes
View all 2 quotes on Lisp (programming language) →Larry Wall on Ruby (programming language) 2 quotes
“"Everything is an object" - Smalltalk and its children. (whispered:) Ruby. (laughter)”
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Larry Wall on Consistency 2 quotes
“Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.”
Larry Wall on God
“God's greatness and goodness are measured by the fact that he gives us choices. He doesn't require us to thank him for our food. (In case you hadn't noticed.) God is not a Modernist. He doesn't view us as nails. God expects us to behave like carpenters. Indeed, he gave us a carpenter as an example. So I think God is postmodern. He has his own ideas of what rules, and what sucks, and he doesn't expect everyone else to agree with him.”
Larry Wall on Extreme programming
“But you could do extreme programming. In fact, I had a college buddy I did pair programming with. We took a compiler writing class together and studied all that fancy stuff from the dragon book. Then of course the professor announced we would be implementing our own language, called PL/0. After thinking about it a while, we announced that we were going to do our project in BASIC. The professor looked at us like were insane. Nobody else in the class was using BASIC. And you know what? Nobody else in the class finished their compiler either. We not only finished but added I/O extensions, and called it PL 0.5. That's rapid prototyping.”
About Larry Wall
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.