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7 Larry Wall Quotes on Education

Larry Wall quotes on education

  1. It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)

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  2. 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. :-)

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  3. 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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  4. I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)

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  5. (To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'. :-))

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  6. I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

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  7. I'll say it again for the logic impaired.

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