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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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