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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.
I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.'
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl.