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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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