9 Quotes & Sayings By Larry Wall

Larry Wall is the creator of the Perl programming language. His other software projects include Perl-to-Go, Perl-to-CSS, Perl-to-Javascript, Perl-to-PHP, Perl-to-Ruby, Perl-to .NET, and Perl-to-Perl. He is also the author of Programming Perl, which has sold over three million copies. Wall has authored or coauthored seven books on programming languages and software development Read more

He currently works for Google as one of their principal developers of the Chrome web browser.

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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. Larry Wall
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. Larry Wall
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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. Larry Wall
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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. 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
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. Larry Wall
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. Larry Wall
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. Larry Wall