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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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