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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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