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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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