Quote

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

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
Think
Thinking
Deprecate
Combines
String
Strings
Immediately

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
Larry Wall
Image
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
Larry Wall
Image
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
Larry Wall
Image
There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
Larry Wall
Image
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
Larry Wall
Image
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
Larry Wall
Image
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
Larry Wall
Image
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
Image
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Larry Wall
Image
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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 think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
Larry Wall
Image
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
Larry Wall
Image
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Larry Wall
Image
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall