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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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