Larry Wall Quotes About Writing

• You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

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  Baby   Writing   Ideas  

  "Big Think Interview". bigthink.com.

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• I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

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  Writing   Use   Sentences  

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• Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

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  Writing   Recipes   Ingredients  

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

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  Writing   Enough   Glad  

  Usenet article, 1997.

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• For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

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  Hate   Writing   Love Hate  

  ChangeLog.net Interview, lwn.net. January 17, 2001.

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• What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

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  Writing   Firsts   Computer  

  Usenet article, 1990.

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• Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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  Writing   Code   Writing Code  

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• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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  Real   Writing   Technology  

  Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.543, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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