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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Portability should be the default.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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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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