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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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