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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
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Portability should be the default.
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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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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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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