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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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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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