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Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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 think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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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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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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 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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