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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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Portability should be the default.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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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