Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.
Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.
Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
A good messenger expects to get shot.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
Programmers can be lazy.
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.