Quote #194

There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

More from Larry Wall

  1. : I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .] Gee, it took me about eleven years. :-)
  2. I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
  3. print rand rand rand 1, ' '; # interesting distribution
  4. I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually right.
  5. Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
  6. I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
  7. 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?
  8. The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. :-)

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