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
moving escaping people
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby .
views typewriters architecture
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...
would-be form bothered
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
leaving abuse may
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl .
should perl intuitive
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is
want information valuable
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
distinction believer visuals
I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.
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.
views helping reason
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
purpose perl
Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
computer language prove
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.
jobs army thinking
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.
names want trouble
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
shortcuts ifs
If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.