Larry Wall Quotes on Debugging

10 quotes

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

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

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

  4. Accidental stacks considered harmful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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