Browsing Topic Best Perl Quotes

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter…)

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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.

I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.

What you see is what you see.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn’t believe it if you had never tried it.

What you see is what you get.

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

Let’s just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

It’s not that Perl programmers are idiots, it’s that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

[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.

If Perl is the solution, you’re solving the wrong problem.

Perl doesn’t have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren’t invited, not because it has a shotgun

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack(‘P’,…). Once you have that, there’s only security through obscurity.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Although the Perl Slogan is There’s More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

At many levels, Perl is a ‘diagonal’ language.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

It’s certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

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?

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

I think I’m likely to be certified before Perl is.

The whole intent of Perl 5’s module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.