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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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