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. <br class="br"> 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. <br class="br">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. <br class="br"> Perl Conference http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html, em 20 de agosto de 1997.
Larry Wall: Frases em inglês
“tt>echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.”
Larry Wall livro Programming Perl
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, third edition, section 3.10.
Other
Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"
“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing…”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */
doio.c.
Source code, Other files
“The autodecrement is not magical.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
Working on Perl, of course. [[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.”
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */
doarg.c.
Source code, Other files
“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“Portability should be the default.”
[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”
[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998