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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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 computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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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 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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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