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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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