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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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