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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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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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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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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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