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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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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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