“Odd that we think definitions are definitive.”
[199702221943.LAA20388@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Ларри Уолл — американский программист. Знаменит как создатель языка программирования Perl. Лингвист по образованию.
Уолл — автор клиента Usenet и широкоиспользуемой программы patch. Он дважды побеждал в международном конкурсе запутанного кода на языке программирования Си и был лауреатом первой награды Free Software Foundation за продвижение свободного программного обеспечения в 1998 году.
Wikipedia
“Odd that we think definitions are definitive.”
[199702221943.LAA20388@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
or the gambol
[199709292259.PAA10407@wall.org, 1997]
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[199709302338.QAA17037@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U. S.”
[199809300035.RAA12495@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.”
[199712041747.JAA18908@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.”
[20031219184224.GA19865@wall.org, 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003
[199710161546.IAA07885@wall.org, 1997]
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[1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992
“That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.”
[199809091801.LAA15194@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
[7874@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
[1994Jun15.074039.2654@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994
[199807021924.MAA05380@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution”
[199806191536.IAA19013@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
[10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
“tt>double value; /* or your money back! */short changed; /* so triple your money back! */</tt”
Source code, <code>cons.c</code>
“Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.”
[6vhq4r%24a6i@kiev.wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.”
[199710060253.TAA09723@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?”
[199711102149.NAA16878@wall.org, 1997]
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[199709261754.KAA23761@wall.org, 1997]
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[199709021854.LAA12794@wall.org, 1997]
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“The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.”
[199709012312.QAA08121@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Even the White House has a press agent.”
[199804150048.RAA08083@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
[199709292012.NAA09616@wall.org, 1997]
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“Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality…”
[6940@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
In the perl man page.
Documentation
“tt>#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */</tt”
Source code, <code>perl.c</code>
[199710311732.JAA19169@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997