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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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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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 think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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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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