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
design might language
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
thinking language designer
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
purpose computer language
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
thinking language interpretation
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
computer language prove
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
computer language easy
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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.
beautiful world language
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.
way next language
Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
language computer ambiguous
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
territory arrogant language
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
levels language diagonal
At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
strong language problem
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
caused gulf mexico storm
The storm caused the Gulf of Mexico to be evacuated.