6 Larry Wall Quotes on Best practices

Larry Wall quotes on best practices

15. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)

226. That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. :-)

242. break; /* don't do magic till later */

263. #else /* !STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */

265. Be consistent.

272. Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.