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Larry Wall Quotes about Giving

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True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Larry Wall
Inspiring, Greatness, Giving

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
People, Giving, Use
Interview with Maya Tamiya, lwn.net. January 17, 2001.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Larry Wall
Giving, Way, Computer
Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant (2012). “Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting”, p.702, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Larry Wall
Giving, Input, Sides

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