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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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 whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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