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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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