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
economy should illegal
It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
latin greek intuition
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
trying stubborn roles
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
broken cases
And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
use favors enough
We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor...
thinking space agents
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
sake
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
wall different larry
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
thinking said should
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
cute cutting levels
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
people use forks
I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.
problem easy shotguns
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
way ifs
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.