that too much control is just as deadly as too little control. We need control and we need chaos. We need order, and disorder. Simplicity, and complexity. Carefulness, and recklessness. Poise, and panic. Science, and art.
Perl Conference http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html, em 20 de agosto de 1997.
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Larry Wall Frases famosas
Perl was never designed to be perfect. It was designed to evolve, to become more adaptive, as they say.
Larry Wall em entrevista a Marjorie Richardson, em 01.05.1999, publicada em Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394
many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts.
Perl Conference http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html, em 20 de agosto de 1997.
Larry Wall: Frases em inglês
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“tt>if (rsfp = mypopen('/bin/mail root','w')) { /* heh, heh */</tt”
Source code, <code>perl.c</code>
“I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.”
On s/foo/bar/eieio [[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.”
[6vu1vo%[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
ibid.
Other
“It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.”
Regarding 10_000_000 [[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“That should probably be written: no!@#$%^&*:@! semicolon”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“[ End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming…]”
Source code, <code>Configure</code>