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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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