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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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