6 Larry Wall Quotes on Shell

Larry Wall quotes on shell

55. ...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

74. They can always run stderr through uniq. :-)

253. OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh! I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...

257. Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell. :-)

278. And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.

301. : I've heard that there is a shell (bourne or csh) to perl filter, does : anyone know of this or where I can get it? Yeah, you filter it through Tom Christiansen. :-)