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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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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 view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Information wants to be useful.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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