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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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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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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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