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
gulf path storms took
These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.
computer files
Just don't create a file called.
creativity thinking trying
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.
thinking starting ache
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
fixed bigs deals
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
obscurity wells security
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
would-be form bothered
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
historical brain way
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.
jobs may pleasant-day
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.
design might language
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
cheerleading computer worst
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
thinking definitions odd
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
charitable features mislead
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
keys doubt poor
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.