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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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