Quote

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

Larry Wall

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
TimToady
Larry Arnold Wall
Still
Python
Long
Note
Think
Notes
Thinking
Folks
Like
Wonder
Lasts
Last
Stills

More quotes by Larry Wall

Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
Larry Wall
Image
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
Larry Wall
Image
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
Larry Wall
Image
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
Larry Wall
Image
People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry Wall
Image
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Larry Wall
Image
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
Larry Wall
Image
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall
Image
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Larry Wall
Image
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
Larry Wall
Image
There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
Larry Wall
Image
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
Larry Wall
Image
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
Larry Wall
Image
Programmers can be lazy.
Larry Wall
Image
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.
Larry Wall