"There are three people in the world who understand the RegExp engine. Give or take 4."
-- Larry Wall
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Fri Jan 25 14:31:19 EST 2002
"We often joke that a camel is a horse designed by a committee,
but if you think about it, the camel is pretty well adapted for life
in the desert. The camel has evolved to be relatively
self-sufficent*
*On the other hand, the camel has
not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl."
-- Larry Wall, et al. Programming Perl
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Fri Jan 25 14:38:40 EST 2002
"I'm trying to make this program fail to compile, as part of
debugging this new module I'm writing. So I go to a random line and
type garbage. There's something seriously wrong with a language where
you can put 'fd adsfaedf adf adsfa' on a random line -- and it's NOT A
SYNTAX ERROR. :-P"
-- 'Sue D. Nymme' - online discussion
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Fri Jan 25 14:39:51 EST 2002
"THINGY: Something sort of like an object, that you may or may
not know the name of, but that you can refer to with circumlocutions
like "that hangy-downy thingy that dangles in the back of your
throat." ... you can refer to [the thingy] via reference from which
the thingy dangles, metaphorically speaking."
-- glossary of Programming Perl, 2nd edition
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Fri Jan 25 14:41:21 EST 2002
"Perl is the only language where you can bang your head on the
keyboard and it compiles"
-- Not sure
Submitted by BB on Sat Jan 26 15:54:56 EST 2002
"We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a
programmer : laziness, impatience, and hubris."
-- Programming in Perl, page xiii
Submitted by BB on Sat Jan 26 15:57:58 EST 2002
"#!/usr/bin/perl
APPEAL;
listen (please, please);
open yourself, wide;
join (you, me);
connect (us, together);
tell me.
do something if distressed;
@dawn, dance;
@evening, sing;
read (books, $poems, stories) until peaceful;
study if able;
write me if-you-please;
sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);
do*not*die (like this)
if sin abounds;
keys (hidden), open (locks, doors), tell secrets;
do not, I-bet-you, close them, yet.
accept(yourself, changes),
bind (grief, despair);
require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;
select (always), length(of-days)"
-- Programming Perl, page 648
Submitted by Sharon Hopkins on Wed Jan 30 23:39:28 EST 2002
"How many Perl programmers does it take to write a program?
All of them. One to write it, the rest of them to bitch about how
much easier it is to do in Perl than in C."
-- myself
Submitted by Mad Hatter on Fri Feb 1 14:15:20 EST 2002
"You may declare your variables though, if you like, using either
'my' or 'our' in front of the variable name. You can even make it an
error to use an undeclared variable. This kind of dicipline is fine,
but you have to declare that you want the discipline."
-- Programming Perl, pg 111
Submitted by Pumpkin King on Sat Feb 2 00:26:38 EST 2002
"Normally, Perl minds its own business about your programming habits"
-- Chapter 4 of Programming Perl
Submitted by E on Sat Feb 2 00:28:07 EST 2002
"The routine indicated by $SIG{__DIE__} provides a way to turn a
frog exception into a prince exception with a magical kiss, which
often doesn't work."
-- Programming Perl, 3rd Ed. Page 673
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Fri Mar 8 10:00:28 EST 2002
"camels
bloody, 66
horses vs., 4
pink and blue, 647"
-- Index of O'Reilly's Programming Perl
Submitted by Dana P on Mon Mar 25 20:22:28 EST 2002
"she bangs she bangs
oh baby when she moves she moves
i go crazy 'cause she
looks like a flower
but she stings like a bee
like every girl in history
she bangs she bangs
i'm wasted by the way she moves
no one ever lokked so fine
she reminds me
that a woman's got one thing on her mind"
-- Ricky Martin
Submitted by JD on Thu Apr 4 06:13:44 EST 2002
"The description of sprintf includes the list of format specifications. We'd duplicate them here, but this book is already an ecological disaster."
-- Programming Perl, page 767
Submitted by The Mallard on Tue Apr 16 02:13:41 EDT 2002
"...
opendir(THISDIR, ".") or die "serious dainbramage: $!";
..."
-- Programming Perl P770
Submitted by Deep on Tue Apr 23 17:52:18 EDT 2002
"Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
Certainly not. Larry (Wall) expects that he'll be certified before Perl is."
-- http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlfaq2.html
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Fri Jul 26 21:48:02 EDT 2002
"How does the CPAN work?
With dark magic, evil-looking sacrificial knives and scantily clad virgins under pale moonlight."
-- http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_does_the_CPAN_work
Submitted by Paul Lalli on Sat Aug 10 08:33:58 EDT 2002