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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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