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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Portability should be the default.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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