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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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