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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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 just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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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