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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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