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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
Writer
LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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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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