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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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Programmer
Writer
LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Perl
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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