10 Larry Wall Quotes on Debugging

Larry Wall quotes on debugging

33. In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)

74. They can always run stderr through uniq. :-)

130. I surely do hope that's a syntax error.

232. Accidental stacks considered harmful.

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

243. stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */

249. echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';;

252. [End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]

261. if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */

311. Hmm, doubtful. The source code generally wasn't there when I needed it.