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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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