Larry Wall

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• "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi." - Larry Wall -- Tim Owensby
• The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors. :-) -- Larry Wall in <8854 -- fortune (Unix)
• There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over. -- Larry Wall in <1992Aug19.041614.6963 -- sdq
• "However, complexity is not always the enemy." -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) -- Fortune Cookies Bot
• :-P he is a beast. I wish I was Larry. -- ☕ Mike ☕
• The road to success is always under construction. -Larry Wall -- JoshuaKilloran
• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. -Larry Wall .,^ -- Cosmos
• Larry Wall of fame had a plan for world domination by Perl from the very beginning - and in its time, it succeeded. book -- Julian Martinez
• Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199709021744.KAA12428 -- 困ったなあ…
• The road to success is always under construction. -Larry Wall Power Vote For DARREN -- Edward Bulaong
• Remember though that THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page -- fortune_bot
• Relentless Maintenance ! The Road to Success is always under Construction. -Larry Wall -- Kamran Khan
• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. -Larry Wall ^ -- Fargo
• The road to is ALWAYS under construction. -Larry Wall -- Inspower
• Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. -- Larry Wall in <199707300650.XAA05515 -- Weather Station
• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. -Larry Wall -- Leonardo Da Vinci
• The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. -- Larry Wall -- Ed Coburn
• NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */ -- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code -- Xero
• Larry Wall will talk in Fosdem about Perl 6 being production-ready in 2015 -> "Perl 6 will be released in Fosdem" -- Dotan Dimet
• The road to success is always under construction. -Larry Wall -- NichelleSaum
• we optimise for fun but sometimes our definition of fun is a little masochistic - Larry Wall -- Sevan Janiyan
• "Perl 5 is like Thorin Oakenshield, Perl 6 is like Tom Bombadil" NOT Larry Wall -- Darrin Chandler
• Larry Wall presenting a long and self-indulgent in-joke at Getting nothing useful or interesting from this so far. -- Richard King
• So the news from he is Perl 6.0 should be released by *this* Christmas -- Ben Hutchings
• We'd really like if perl6 is your last language -- Larry Wall. In other news, suicide rates in certain language communities are on the rise. -- Itkovian
• «Oh my gosh he is actually going to talk about Perl» Larry Wall =] -- Anka Sirota
• Talk by Larry Wall at was so annoying I left the room after 15 minutes and now want to uninstall Perl from all my devices. Well done -- Jochem
• Perl 6 is to Perl 5 what LotR is to Hobbit. ok Larry Wall. What were you drinking. Good fun tho :-p -- Tai Kedzierski
• "Fork is not a four letter word anymore" Larry Wall. -- Leandro Pereira
• Sad about all the talks I miss, but now I'm watching Larry Wall. Because he is Larry Wall. -- Redbeard Hacker
• Larry Wall telling the story of how Perl 5 -> 6 is like the J.R Tolkeins the Hobbit -> the Lord of the Rings. Really entertaining -- Rich Evans
• "One of Perl 6's projects is 'Second System Syndrome Done right!'" - Larry Wall -- 1.0.0-alpha
• Larry Wall at seems to be a great Middle-earth fan. The talk is fun. -- Der Hueck
• He is talking about Tolkien... Priceless. Only at -- Edoardo Rossi
• He is standing on stage quoting Tolkien next to a giant camel. -- Jonty Wareing
• Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199709021744.KAA12428 ... -- op_redacted
• "It is easier to port a shell than a shell script." - Larry Wall -- Lex Wilridge
• - Think of prototypes as a funny markup languagethe interpretation is left up to the rendering engine Larry Wall in -- Bob Ezeek
• - True it returns for false but is an even more interesting number than 0 Larry Wall in 199707300650XAA05515wallorg -- Firman
• Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199710211959.MAA18990 -- Anne Bothenz
• NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */ -- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code -- David Grayless
• "Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is." -- Larry Wall -- Robert L Santuci Jr
• - I think $ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon Larry Wall in 199705101952MAA00756wallorg -- ashley h1lton
• - The autodecrement is not magical Larry Wall in the perl man page -- Ave Rapaport
• (PERL) Q. Why is this so clumsy? A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses. -- Larry Wall in (1/2) -- Fortune Mod
• Shell programming is a 1950s juke box... | Larry Wall. -- Raghav Dinesh
• When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page -- Weather Storey
• "It is easier to port a shell than a shell script." -- Larry Wall -- fortune-bot
• You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199710221740.KAA24455 -- Nat Faery
• - double value; or your money back! short changed; so triple your money back! Larry Wall in consc from the -- Amerigo Cartega

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