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So... Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us." (Larry Wall)
If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages. View quote
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady... View quote
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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon. View quote
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. View quote
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place. View quote
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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. View quote
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. View quote
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid. View quote
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. View quote
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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. (Larry Wall)
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once. View quote
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe. View quote
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. View quote
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't. View quote
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. View quote
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. View quote
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive. View quote
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. View quote
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. View quote
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6. (Larry Wall)
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-) View quote
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) View quote
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon. View quote
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools. Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long. View quote
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