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Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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