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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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 Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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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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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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