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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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