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Larry Wall, born on September 27, 1954, is a renowned programmer. He is best known for inventing the Perl programming language, which has gained widespread popularity for its powerful text processing capabilities. Wall's contributions to the field of programming extend beyond Perl, as he has also been involved in numerous open-source projects, significantly impacting the programming community.

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Famous Larry Wall Quotes

“A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.”

Should Hard Fall Easy Categories Hard Things Easy Things Perl

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“Portability should be the default.”

Should Default Portability

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“Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.”

Thinking Should Wells Running Faster Perl

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“Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)”

Should Intuitive Perl

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“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”

Should Hard Easy Hard Things Easy Things

Book:Programming Perl: 3rd Edition

Source: Programming Perl: 3rd Edition

“The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.”

Should Hard Hard Work Computer Paid

Author:Larry Wall

“Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.”

Should Long Perl

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“Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.”

Should Mark Print Clue Hash

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“That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.”

Thinking Should Said Strings

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“It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.”

Should Economy Illegal Crowded

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“The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.”

Way Should Happens Brain Concepts Decided Historical Accidents Quantum Fluctuation

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“This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.”

Way Want Should Mean Doe Computer Bullets Dispassionate

Author:Larry Wall

About the Author

Born: September 27, 1954
Known for: Programmer
Quotes: 218

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