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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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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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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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