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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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