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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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 computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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