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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Portability should be the default.
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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's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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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 languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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