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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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