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
wall people sound
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
thinking
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
baby writing ideas
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
hate writing love-hate
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
easy should hard
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
want information
Information wants to be useful.
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.
territory arrogant language
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
artist hubris
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
running paint honda
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
time tape lasts
When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
power community design
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
running thinking faster
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
perl
To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.