Larry Wall Quotes About Perl
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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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.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
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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.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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