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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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