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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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 need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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