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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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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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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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