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
world expanding perl
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
realizing modern posts
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
fighting sake argument
For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
want satisfied
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
want development goofing-off
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
responsibility choices made
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
routine definitions would-be
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
jobs may pleasant-day
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
historical brain way
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
white house agents
Even the White House has a press agent.
python people wanted
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
calamities far firm handle hurricane numbers seen soon trying worst
We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage.
car fabrics films milk opportunity outcomes produce wrap
We have the opportunity to produce feedstock to make fabrics like polyesters, plastics for films that wrap our foods, or plastics for things like milk bottles, car parts, all of that. The outcomes are the deliverables.
companies hard invested rebuild thinking
The refineries aren't going anywhere. There is too much invested in them here and companies wouldn't be working this hard to rebuild if they were thinking of moving.