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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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