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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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