6 Larry Wall Quotes on Tools

Larry Wall quotes on tools

30. Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)

46. : And it goes against the grain of building small tools. Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.

69. : But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) :-)

212. On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

250. echo $package has manual pages available in source form. echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.

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. :-)