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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

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

Larry Wall livre Programming Perl

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

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

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

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

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

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

doio.c.
Source code, Other files

“The autodecrement is not magical.”

In the perl man page.
Documentation

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

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

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

[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.”

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…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“Portability should be the default.”

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

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

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