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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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