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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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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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