Larry Wall Quotes on Learning
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
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Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
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No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)
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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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: I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .] Gee, it took me about eleven years. :-)
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.