What did Larry Wall mean by: If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument. - Larry Wall Computer programmer Copy
+ At many levels, Perl is a ‘diagonal’ language. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Larry Wall, Language, Levels, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Larry Wall, Problem, Solve, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy. Feraz Zeid, August 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Larry Wall, Fixed, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Larry Wall, Programmers, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Larry Wall, Hard, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ What you’ll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you’ve set your foot upon. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Larry Wall, Feet, Path, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Larry Wall, Fun, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
+ It’s hard to tune heavily tuned code. Feraz Zeid, August 29, 2023December 24, 2023, Larry Wall, Code, Hard, Tunes, 0 - Larry Wall Computer programmer
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. - Jeremy Collier Clergyman · England
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. - William Matthews Poet · USA
Real style is not having a program – it’s how one behaves in a crisis. - Frank Auerbach Artist · Germany
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
