Larry Wall on History
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Larry Wall, catalogued under history, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Larry Wall and filed under "history" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Larry Wall, entry #203377: "If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization."
Attributed to Larry Wall, entry #135869: "Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'."
7 Quotes by Larry Wall on History
"If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization."
"Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'."
"The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst."
"It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences."
"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."
"Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings."
"One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy."