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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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