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.
song love-you ideas
Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.
thinking ideas patents
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
baby writing ideas
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
ideas special littles
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.
gulf path storms took
These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.
build
You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
caused gulf mexico storm
The storm caused the Gulf of Mexico to be evacuated.
campbell good paints sounds true
Mr. Campbell paints a very rosy picture. It sounds too good to be true because it is too good to be true.
monster moves until
We won't know any of that until that monster moves on through.
capacity either prices third
About a third of the nation's refining capacity is either down or in peril, ... you will see prices go up. But it will be only temporary.
companies hard invested rebuild thinking
The refineries aren't going anywhere. There is too much invested in them here and companies wouldn't be working this hard to rebuild if they were thinking of moving.
access deal hard locate problems workers
It has been very hard for these companies, because many of them first had to locate their workers who had been evacuated and now have to deal with problems of access to their facilities.
amount time works
There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.