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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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Portability should be the default.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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