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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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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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