Larry Wall Quotes on Technology
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) :-)
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
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Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
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How do you type it? With your keyboard.
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Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong. Larry: Does your dog have a long tail? Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book. Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?