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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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