Larry Wall
Larry Wall
Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 March 1949
CountryCanada
rooms privacy infatuation
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun
past stories moments
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.
real writing technology
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
thinking requirements testing
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
cat night years
I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.
technology design jurassic-park
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
oatmeal computer fingernails
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
years california next-year
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.
people way helping
I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.
trying want arbitrary
I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager...
thinking python long
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
inspiring greatness giving
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
night naps up-early
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.
strong language problem
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.