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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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