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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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