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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
Larry Wall
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
Larry Wall
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
Larry Wall
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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
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I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.
Erik Naggum
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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
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Larry Wall
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
Larry Wall
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[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
Larry Wall
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Larry Wall
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
Larry Wall
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
Larry Wall
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
Larry Wall
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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
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
Larry Wall
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
Larry Wall
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Alan Kay
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My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.
Martin Lewis Perl
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The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
Erik Naggum
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
Larry Wall
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Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.
Bruce Eckel
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
Larry Wall
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall
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