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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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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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