[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Larry Wall: Zitate auf Englisch
“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
[8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“tt>/* And you'll never guess what the dog had *//* in its mouth… */</tt”
Source code, <code>stab.c</code>
[199710171838.LAA24968@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[199809230518.WAA19312@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.”
Public Talks, The State of the Onion 10
“We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.”
[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.”
[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“tt>echo 'ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.';;</tt”
Source code, <code>Configure</code>
“I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.”
[1994Nov12.013919.21133@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994
[199709251614.JAA15718@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.”
[1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
“Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do.”
[11091@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
[199710221710.KAA24242@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”
[10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs.”
[199804140117.SAA02006@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.”
[199702271735.JAA04048@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.”
[1994Jul21.173737.16853@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994
[1991Jun24.231628.14446@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
“Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”
[199809260112.SAA17178@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b.”
[199710221731.KAA24396@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.”
[1991May31.181659.28817@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.”
[199710221718.KAA24299@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
In the perl man page regarding chroot(2).
Documentation
“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”
Amazon.com Interview: Larry Wall http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=7137.
Other
“Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.”
"Apocalypse 5: Regular Expressions", perl.com, 2001-06-04 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html?page=6
Other
Variante: … I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.