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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
Larry Wall
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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.
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