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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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 don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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