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
levels computer incontinence
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
world computer method
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.
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.
default should portability
Portability should be the default.
writing code writing-code
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
world this-world
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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.
cheerleading computer worst
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
firsts surprising whole
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
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.
jobs fake trying
This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.
lines want one-line
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
computer autobiography
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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.