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.
caused gulf mexico storm
The storm caused the Gulf of Mexico to be evacuated.
calamities far firm handle hurricane numbers seen soon trying worst
We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage.
difference field football game great
That was huge, in a 7-7 game to give us great field position. That was probably the difference in the football game right there.
car fabrics films milk opportunity outcomes produce wrap
We have the opportunity to produce feedstock to make fabrics like polyesters, plastics for films that wrap our foods, or plastics for things like milk bottles, car parts, all of that. The outcomes are the deliverables.
hogs washing worth
I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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.
build
You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
hit ivan last passed
When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.
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.