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
keys littles shortcuts
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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.
thinking desire littles
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
hands littles different
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I 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.
hit ivan last passed
When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.
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.