9 Larry Wall Quotes on Efficiency

Larry Wall quotes on efficiency

56. Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

59. Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

73. Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

98. The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

126. And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.

162. I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

263. #else /* !STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */

293. When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

296. I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-)