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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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