Larry Wall
Larry Wall
Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 March 1949
CountryCanada
cute cutting levels
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
people use forks
I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
problem easy shotguns
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
way ifs
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
obvious ifs
It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
writing use sentences
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
keys littles shortcuts
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
firsts surprising whole
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
redundant agree ifs
If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
people together want
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
default should portability
Portability should be the default.
obvious-things obvious right-thing
There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.
shortcuts ifs
If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
said redundancy
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.