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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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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'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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