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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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