Larry Wall Quotes About Giving

• 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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  Source: bigthink.com

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• [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.

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

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  Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant (2012). “Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting”, p.702, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

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• 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.

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  Interview with Maya Tamiya, lwn.net. January 17, 2001.

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