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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Portability should be the default.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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