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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
Perl
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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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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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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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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