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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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