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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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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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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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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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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