Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
Larry Wall Quotes
born 1954 United States
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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Also known as: Larry wall, Wall, Larry
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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon.
Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...
I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(
I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature
How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
/* now make a new head in the exact same spot *
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Larry Wall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.