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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.
Larry Wall
Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
Larry Wall
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
Larry Wall
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
Larry Wall
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
Larry Wall
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
Larry Wall
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry Wall
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
Larry Wall
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
Larry Wall
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Larry Wall
The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
Larry Wall
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
Larry Wall
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
Larry Wall
It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
Larry Wall
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
Larry Wall
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Larry Wall