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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Information wants to be useful.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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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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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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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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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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