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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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