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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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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.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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?
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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