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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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Portability should be the default.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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