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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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