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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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