Larry Wall Should Quotations

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

Portability should be the default.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

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?