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
white house agents
Even the White House has a press agent.
world this-world
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
names want trouble
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
hands littles different
You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
anime watches take-time
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
light law temperature
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
people computer easier
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
lazy programmers
Programmers can be lazy.
rooms privacy infatuation
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun
past stories moments
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
real writing technology
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
thinking requirements testing
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
cat night years
I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.
technology design jurassic-park
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.