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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Portability should be the default.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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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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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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