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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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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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