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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 think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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 don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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