Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. Larry Wall More Quotes by Larry Wall More Quotes From Larry Wall Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. Larry Wall fingernails oatmeal computer Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. Larry Wall jurassic-park design technology You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. Larry Wall irrational computer needs The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. Larry Wall consistent problem way Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun Larry Wall infatuation privacy rooms I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway. Larry Wall animation anime watches The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. Larry Wall temperature light law And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. Larry Wall null differences space The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. Larry Wall computer language purpose Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around. Larry Wall worrying-too-much important past Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. Larry Wall writing-code code writing I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. Larry Wall sentences use writing Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. Larry Wall inconsistent sanity essence Programmers can be lazy. Larry Wall programmers lazy I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night. Larry Wall cat night years That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions. Larry Wall fans So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly. Larry Wall army jobs thinking Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on. Larry Wall sake I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last? Larry Wall python long thinking The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise. Larry Wall computer determined thinking
