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6 Larry Wall Quotes on Code

Larry Wall quotes on code

  1. You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)

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  2. If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

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  3. It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

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  4. The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'. :-)

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  5. /* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */

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  6. (Presuming for the sake of argument that it's even *possible* to design better code in Perl than in C. :-)

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