Larry Wall Quotes on Culture
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)
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It's all magic. :-)
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)]
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
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I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture. :-)
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It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.
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Beauty? What's that?
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR> I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)
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double value; /* or your money back! */ short changed; /* so triple your money back! */
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong. Larry: Does your dog have a long tail? Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book. Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?