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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Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
real writing technology
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
technology three laziness
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
build
You can't build new ones, so you keep what you have.
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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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When Ivan hit last year, it passed over 150 platforms.
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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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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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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 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.