Larry Wall Quotes on Code

6 quotes

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

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

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

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

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

  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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