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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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