9 Larry Wall Quotes on Community

Larry Wall quotes on community

50. If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization. :-)

64. I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

82. The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

83. Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

208. : What do people think? What, do people think? :-)

227. The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.

286. [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

287. ...Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, 'If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you.' Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course.

301. : I've heard that there is a shell (bourne or csh) to perl filter, does : anyone know of this or where I can get it? Yeah, you filter it through Tom Christiansen. :-)