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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.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Information wants to be useful.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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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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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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