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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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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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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Larry Wall
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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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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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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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
Larry Wall
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
Larry Wall
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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall
And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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