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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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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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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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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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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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