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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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