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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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 don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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