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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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