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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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 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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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