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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
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Portability should be the default.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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