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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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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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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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