Quote #57
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
More from Larry Wall
- Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
- You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)
- ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
- There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
- Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Uni…
- Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendi…
- Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurass…