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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
Larry Wall
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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.
Larry Wall
Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
Larry Wall
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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. :-)
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
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
Larry Wall
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
Larry Wall
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
Larry Wall
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
Larry Wall
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
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.
Larry Wall
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
Larry Wall
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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