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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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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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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 think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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