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Larry Wall je vývojář a autor první verze programovacího jazyka Perl. Je také znám jako původní tvůrce programů patch, rn a metaconfig. Dvakrát vyhrál IOCCC a v roce 1998 obdržel jako první cenu Free Software Foundation za rozvoj svobodného software.

Kromě svých technických schopností je Larry znám jako vtipný člověk se smyslem pro ironický humor, jenž je roztroušen v komentářích zdrojového kódu nebo na Usenetu .

Larry Wall je povoláním lingvista, což mu pomáhá při psaní knih. Je spoluautorem knihy Programming Perl , základního zdroje pro programátory v Perlu. Také pomáhal při přípravě knihy Perl Cookbook . Všechny jeho knihy byly vydány nakladatelstvím O'Reilly .

Larry stále dohlíží nad dalším vývojem jazyka Perl a slouží jako benevolentní doživotní diktátor tohoto projektu. Wikipedia  

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Larry Wall: Citáty anglicky

“If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.”

[199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.”

[199806232054.NAA01735@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.”

[199702111730.JAA28598@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly…”

[2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.”

[199710211647.JAA17957@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)…(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat…”

[1991Apr29.072206.5621@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous.”

[199809111734.KAA28296@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“tt>#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */</tt”

Source code, <code>perl.c</code>

“All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory…”

[1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway…”

[1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“Perl will always provide the null.”

[199801151818.KAA14538@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.”

[20031212010945.GB29594@wall.org, 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003

“I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble…”

[11333@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all…”

[10160@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

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

[199811242326.PAA28495@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.”

[199804150050.RAA08093@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.”

[199706242038.NAA29853@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“tt>break; /* don't do magic till later */</tt”

Source code, <code>stab.c</code>

“Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy…”

[1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“It's documented in The Book, somewhere…”

[10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?”

[199708012226.PAA22015@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to.”

That, and the Underwood typewriter...
[199808050415.VAA24026@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.”

[199806221558.IAA07251@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998