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
power ideas people
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
money pay corporations
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
essence sanity inconsistent
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
believe dont-believe
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
economy should illegal
It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
latin greek intuition
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
trying stubborn roles
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
broken cases
And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
use favors enough
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
thinking space agents
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.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
sake
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
wall different larry
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
thinking said should
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.