7 Larry Wall Quotes on Software design

Larry Wall quotes on software design

23. There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity... :-)

76. Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. :-)

116. The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

174. Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

201. Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'. :-)

295. Q. Why is this so clumsy? A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses.

303. > This made me wonder, suddenly: can telnet be written in perl? Of course it can be written in Perl. Now if you'd said nroff, that would be more challenging...