Larry Wall Quotes on Solution

4 quotes

  1. Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z] [a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution). Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl. :-)

  2. The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.

  3. There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.

  4. The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.

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