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
thinking people arms
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
clue should mark
Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
long should perl
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
people entertainment values
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
suicide people bunch
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
running machines bits
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
tunes code hard
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
hard-work computer should
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
true-friend abuse reserves
Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
memories hey garbage
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
use grammar strict
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
mean wow sides
Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
may ordinary explicit
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
science thinking literature
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.