11 Larry Wall Quotes on Learning

Larry Wall quotes on learning

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

14. It's documented in The Book, somewhere...

17. Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)

19. Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

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

39. No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... :-)

53. Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)]

57. What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

193. : I could understand principles of Perl source in 2-3 days [. . .] Gee, it took me about eleven years. :-)

220. 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. :-)

266. Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.