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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Information wants to be useful.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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