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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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 being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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 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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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