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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
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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