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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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