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
clue should mark
Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.
long should perl
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
hard-work computer should
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
economy should illegal
It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
thinking said should
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
default should portability
Portability should be the default.
should perl intuitive
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is
easy should hard
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
fall easy should
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
daughter said shoulders
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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.