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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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