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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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