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Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Larry Wall
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
Larry Wall
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
Larry Wall
Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
Larry Wall
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
Larry Wall
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Larry Wall
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Larry Wall
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
Larry Wall
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
Larry Wall
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
Larry Wall
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
Larry Wall
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
Larry Wall