6 Larry Wall Quotes on Development

Larry Wall quotes on development

24. There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it. :-)

34. I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)

164. Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support. :-)

198. The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. :-)

212. On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

234. And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...