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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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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'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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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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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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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