Quote

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

Larry Wall

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
TimToady
Larry Arnold Wall
Heavily
Tune
Tunes
Code
Hard
Tuned

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
Larry Wall
Image
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
Larry Wall
Image
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Larry Wall
Image
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Larry Wall
Image
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
Larry Wall
Image
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Larry Wall
Image
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
Larry Wall
Image
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
Larry Wall
Image
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
Larry Wall
Image
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
Larry Wall
Image
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
Larry Wall
Image
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
Larry Wall
Image
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
Larry Wall
Image
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall
Image
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
Image
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
Larry Wall
Image
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
Larry Wall
Image
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
Larry Wall
Image
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
Larry Wall