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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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