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
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.
creativity thinking trying
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
thinking starting ache
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
thinking definitions odd
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
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.
real thinking people
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
art thinking engineering
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
thinking language interpretation
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
thinking people arms
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
science thinking literature
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
thinking space agents
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
thinking said should
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
new-york thinking people
(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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.