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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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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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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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