Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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.
Accidental stacks considered harmful.
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.
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
[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.
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.