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Larry Wall est le concepteur américain du langage de programmation Perl, ainsi que le développeur de son premier interprète . Wikipedia  

✵ 27. septembre 1954
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Larry Wall: Citations en anglais

“Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.”

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Larry Wall

[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Beauty? What's that?”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [ Was that sufficiently incendiary?]”

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[[email protected], 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.”

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[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.”

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[[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config. sh.”

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[[email protected], 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“P. S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did…”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“So I'm thinking about??, or!!, or //, or \\, or whatever. But I think I like?? the best so far. Or the least worst.”

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[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.”

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[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?”

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[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto.”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.”

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On s/foo/bar/eieio [[email protected], 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.”

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[6vu1vo%[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).”

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Usenet postings, 1997

“If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.”

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Public Talks, The State of the Onion 10

“Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.”

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[[email protected], 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“… Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, "If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you." Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course.”

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“On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.”

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[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.”

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[[email protected], 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“[ End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming…]”

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Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.”

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Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"