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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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