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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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