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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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