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Larry Wall is an American computer programmer and author, best known for creating the Perl programming language. His work has had a major impact on software development and scripting languages worldwide. He is celebrated for his distinctive approach to language design and his contributions to the programming community. Here are 327 of his quotes:

I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days. (Larry Wall)
Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth. View quote
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But you could do extreme programming. In fact, I had a college buddy I did pair programming with. We took a compiler writing class together and studied all that fancy stuff from the dragon book. Then of course the professor announced we would be implementing our own language, called PL/0. After thinking about it a while, we announced that we were going to do our project in BASIC. The professor looked at us like we were insane. Nobody else in the class was using BASIC. And you know what? Nobody else in the class finished their compiler either. We not only finished but added I/O extensions, and called it PL 0.5. That's rapid prototyping. View quote
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG? Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature. View quote
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How do you type it? With your keyboard. View quote
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It's, uh, pseudo code. Yeah, that's the ticket...[...]And 'unicode' is pseudo code for $encoding. View quote
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"tt>#else /*! STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */. View quote
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Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors. View quote
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Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP has never really catered to mere mortals... And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven LISP for not catering to them. View quote
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It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me... View quote
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There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it. (Larry Wall)
Okay, that's definitely enough hype. View quote
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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers. View quote
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How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem? View quote
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I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa. View quote
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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet. View quote
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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0? View quote
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I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI. pm, we're probably okay. View quote
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so. View quote
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it. View quote
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"tt>stab_val(stab)-> str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */. (Larry Wall)
The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it. View quote
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Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... View quote
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So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL. View quote
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives. View quote
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Photo: Randal Schwartz from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: September 27, 1954
Quotes count: 327
Wikipedia: Larry Wall

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