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Larry Wall
Age: 70
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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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 don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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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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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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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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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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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