Re: I want more monkquips

Some links from perl.net.au humour page:

A couple of other random ones that spring to mind:

"Nothing but perl can parse Perl". First coined by Tom Christiansen, I think.
It's easier to port a shell than a shell script (Larry Wall).

Update: Some related PM nodes:

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Re^2: I want more monkquips by Lawliet (Curate) on Apr 11, 2009 at 01:13 UTC
Some of the ones that I think would work well from those links: I dream in Perl It's all magic. You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors. I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. --Joseph Newcomer	[reply]

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Re^2: I want more monkquips
by Lawliet (Curate) on Apr 11, 2009 at 01:13 UTC

Some of the ones that I think would work well from those links:

I dream in Perl
It's all magic.
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet)
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.

I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. --Joseph Newcomer

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