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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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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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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 suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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