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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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