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Programmers can be lazy.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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