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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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