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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Portability should be the default.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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