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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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