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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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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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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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