Quote

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

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
Computer
Head
Sort
Rather
Doe
Mean
Dispassionate
Way
Bullet
Bullets

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Larry Wall
Image
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
Image
I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
Larry Wall
Image
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
Larry Wall
Image
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
Larry Wall
Image
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
Larry Wall
Image
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Larry Wall
Image
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
Larry Wall
Image
Programmers can be lazy.
Larry Wall
Image
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
Larry Wall
Image
The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall
Image
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
Larry Wall
Image
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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
If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
Larry Wall
Image
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Larry Wall