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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Portability should be the default.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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