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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Portability should be the default.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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