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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Portability should be the default.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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