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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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“If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp. lang. misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.”

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[1992Mar5.180926.19041@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

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[199710120226.TAA06867@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.”

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[199710161537.IAA07828@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

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

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[199709041935.MAA27136@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady…”

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Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11

“For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.”

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[199710221710.KAA24242@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.”

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[7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.”

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

“You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?”

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[7349@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!”

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Public Talks, "3rd State of the Onion"

“switch (ref $@) { OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die; }”

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[199709302338.QAA17037@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.”

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[199809222305.QAA17574@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.”

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Message-ID <20050516005559.GC26184@wall.org> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/21259, to perl6-language mailing-list.
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“Is LISP a candidate for a scripting language? While you can certainly write things rapidly in it, I cannot in good conscience call LISP a scripting language. By policy, LISP has never really catered to mere mortals… And, of course, mere mortals have never really forgiven LISP for not catering to them.”

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Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11

“If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [ sic] darn shortcut you can.”

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[199709241628.JAA08908@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that…”

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[1991Mar11.230002.27271@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is.”

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[1991Jul31.174523.9447@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.”

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[199710211959.MAA18990@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

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

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[199801200306.TAA11638@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me…”

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[199709242015.NAA10312@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [ sic] anymore.”

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

“When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.”

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In the perl man page.
Documentation

“The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.”

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[199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.”

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[1992Aug19.041614.6963@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

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[1992Sep21.214659.22849@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

“The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.”

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[199806232215.PAA02356@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.”

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[7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

“I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.”

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[6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990