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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Portability should be the default.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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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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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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