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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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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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