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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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