Perl Quotes
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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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Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
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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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What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
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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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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
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[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
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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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Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.
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What you see is what you get.
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What you see is what you see.
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I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.
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Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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