"There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it."

"There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity..."

"The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

"Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl."

"Perl programming is an *empirical* science!"

"Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature"

"Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality..."

"Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/'...but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution). Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl."

"It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all..."

"It's documented in The Book, somewhere..."

"It's all magic."

"It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader."

"I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser."

"I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl."

"If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally..."

"(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York."

"Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG? Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature."

"I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes..."

"I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get."

"Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh."

"Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call."

"Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing."

"And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is."

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

"last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2' That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat..."

"Just don't create a file called -rf."

"I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble..."

"It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers."

"I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident."

"In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is."

"I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious."

": But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet)"

"Odd that we think definitions are definitive."

"As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle."

"If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them."

"The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst."

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

"I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude."

"Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in."