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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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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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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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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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