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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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 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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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