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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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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 think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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