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
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.
computer autobiography
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
distinction believer visuals
I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.
computer language prove
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
names want trouble
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
language computer ambiguous
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
sound distinction officials
I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
perl
To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
redundant agree ifs
If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
time tape lasts
When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
territory arrogant language
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
compromise agree
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
smell air strange
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
derivatives ugly computer
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.