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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Portability should be the default.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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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 young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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