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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Portability should be the default.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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