Top 61 Perl Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

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

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

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

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?

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

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

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

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

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 was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

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

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.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

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

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

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

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

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

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

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

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

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

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

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

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.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl. "Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.

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.

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

[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.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

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.

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

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

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

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

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

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.

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

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.