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

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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Portability should be the default.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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