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Larry Wall

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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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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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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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