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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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