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
python people wanted
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
funny science technology
Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
thinking ada language
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
life benefits fame
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
beautiful world language
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.
want information valuable
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
The autodecrement is not magical.
thinking people important
But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others.
should perl intuitive
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is
leaving abuse may
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl .
views typewriters architecture
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...
thinking computer perl
I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is...
way computer perl
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
wish computer sometimes
Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.