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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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“Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.”

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In the perl man page.
Documentation

“There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.”

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Larry Wall kniha Programming Perl

Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, third edition, section 3.10.
Other

“(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)”

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Usenet postings, 1997

“I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works.”

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Public Talks, "Present Continuous - Future Perfect"

“tt>echo 'Hmmm…you don't have Berkeley networking in libc. a…'echo 'but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in.</tt”

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Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.”

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[199710281816.KAA29614@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”

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[199708040319.UAA16213@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing…”

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[199711071819.KAA29909@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity…”

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[7886@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“tt>s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */</tt”

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doio.c.
Source code, Other files

“As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.”

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[199709081854.LAA20830@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“The autodecrement is not magical.”

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In the perl man page.
Documentation

“… an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.”

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[1992Nov9.195250.23584@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.”

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[199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor.”

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Working on Perl, of course. [199807211548.IAA26184@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that…”

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[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(”

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[199710290036.QAA01818@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.”

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In the perl man page.
Documentation

“I surely do hope that's a syntax error.”

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[199710011752.KAA21624@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix.”

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[1994Apr6.184419.3687@netlabs.com, 1994]
Usenet postings, 1994

“But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)”

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Usenet postings, 1998

“And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally…”

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[20031217195433.GB31020@wall.org, 2003]
Usenet postings, 2003

“No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.”

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[199705102042.NAA00851@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.”

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[199702221943.LAA20388@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'</tt”

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Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“Portability should be the default.”

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[199711072201.OAA01123@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.”

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[199801141725.JAA07555@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998