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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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