Perl Programming Quotes

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

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?

[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.

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

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 programming is an *empirical* science!

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

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.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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

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

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

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.

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