Larry Wall on Writing
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Larry Wall, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Larry Wall and filed under "writing" 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 #113645: "You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all."
Attributed to Larry Wall, entry #45946: "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..."
7 Quotes by Larry Wall on Writing
"You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all."
"We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..."
"Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it."
"I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either."
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."
"Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL."
"Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP has never really catered to mere mortals... And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven LISP for not catering to them."