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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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