Quote

I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.

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
People
Fork
Forks
Use
Away
Thought
Make

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
Larry Wall
Image
Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
Larry Wall
Image
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
Larry Wall
Image
The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
Larry Wall
Image
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
Larry Wall
Image
I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
Larry Wall
Image
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
Larry Wall
Image
What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
Larry Wall
Image
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Larry Wall
Image
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
Larry Wall
Image
But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
Larry Wall
Image
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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