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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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 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.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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