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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:54:55 +0100
notes/fortunes.txt: Add some quotes from Larry Wall
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@@ -218,3 +218,17 @@ Pas même ses freins !
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Rick Roll has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any corporate cyber-security training.
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+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 <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> (1990)
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+Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
+— Larry Wall <1994Jul21.173737.16853@netlabs.com> (1994)
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+The following two statements are usually both true:
+There's not enough documentation.
+There's too much documentation.
+— Larry Wall <199709020026.RAA08431@wall.org> (1997)
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+Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP has never really catered to mere mortals... And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven LISP for not catering to them.
+— Larry Wall, State of the Onion 11 <http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html>
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