Perl Csv Parser Quotes

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. ~ Larry Wall

Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. ~ Keith Bostic

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

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is ... ~ Larry Wall

Cowardice can be defended bravely without self-­refutation, because the opposite of cowardice is not courage but bravado. ~ Jeffrey M. Perl

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C. ~ Larry Wall

If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem. ~ Erik Naggum

You have to hang on for the thunderstorm to end so you can get the sunshine you've deserved. ~ Mikaila Perl

Perl programming is an *empirical* science! ~ Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. ~ Larry Wall

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. ~ Larry Wall

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. ~ Larry Wall

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

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

To base64-encode the whole file, use this: perl -MMIME::Base64 -0777 -ne 'print encode_base64($_)' file Here, the -0777 argument together with -n causes Perl to slurp the whole file into the $_ variable. Next, the file is base64-encoded and printed. (If Perl didn't slurp the entire file, it would be encoded line by line, and you'd end up with a mess.) ~ Peteris Krumins

You get over heartbreak but then that person will forever have a place in your heart. You want to leave space for that person you willy truly fall in love with, forever. ~ Mikaila Perl

My parents were determined to move into the middle class. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

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? ~ Larry Wall

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work. ~ Tim O'Reilly

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. ~ Alan Kay

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

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

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done. ~ Erik Naggum

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves. ~ Martin L. Perl

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. ~ Larry Wall

Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you're like, "Yeah, yeah, I know what a closure is." And then it just continues to fuck with your head. By the end of the book, you're just blown away. ~ Peter Seibel

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere. It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. ~ Larry Wall

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. ~ Graham Nelson

Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin. ~ Maria V. Snyder

Don't blame Perl. It's the same as in C. IEEE says we have to do this. ~ Anonymous

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. ~ Larry Wall

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P', ... ). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. ~ Larry Wall

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. ~ Larry Wall

Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job. ~ Bruce Eckel

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language. ~ Larry Wall

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. ~ Erik Naggum

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is ~ Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. ~ Larry Wall

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. ~ Larry Wall

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known. ~ Erik Naggum

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better. ~ Larry Wall

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. ~ Larry Wall

Though I did not write about neurofeedback in detail, I trained in it, and learned an immense amount about changing the brain from these neurofeedback scientists and clinicians, in supervision, in courses or through their writings: John Finnick, Moshe Perl, Sebern Fisher, Ed Hamlin, Lynda Thompson, Michael Thompson, Len Ochs, and Jaclyn Gisburne. ~ Norman Doidge

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl . ~ Larry Wall

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source ... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source. ~ Mitch Kapor

I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot. ~ Erik Naggum

One snake wasn't enough. Time for Perl's suggestion. I handed everyone two capsules and a pin. "Get as close to the guards as you can. Poke a small hole in the capsule and squirt the liquid near them. Don't get it on you," I instructed.
"Why not?" Leif asked.
"You'll have a necklace snake trying to mate with you."
"Gee, Yelena. I'm so glad you're home," Leif grumbled. "It's good to know Mother is doing something useful with her time."
"I thought your mother madeperfumes," Moon Man said.
"It all depends on how you look at it ~ Maria V. Snyder