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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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