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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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