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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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