"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."
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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."
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"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
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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."
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"For me, writing is a love-hate relationship."
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