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
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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.
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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.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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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.
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The storm caused the Gulf of Mexico to be evacuated.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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Mr. Campbell paints a very rosy picture. It sounds too good to be true because it is too good to be true.
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You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
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When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.
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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.
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We won't know any of that until that monster moves on through.