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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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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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