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
order years court
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;:-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.
distinction believer visuals
I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.
want argument program
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
long tradition perl
Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
sound distinction officials
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
writing recipes ingredients
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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.
boring mathematician perl
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
thinking easier pardon-me
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
pride lazy trying
A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
thinking desire littles
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
progress boring crank
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
levels language diagonal
At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
running interesting attention
I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.