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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

“tt>echo 'Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“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.”

Larry Wall

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

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

Larry Wall

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

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

Larry Wall

doio.c.
Source code, Other files

“The autodecrement is not magical.”

Larry Wall

In the perl man page.
Documentation

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

Larry Wall

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

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

Larry Wall

[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.”

Larry Wall

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…”

Larry Wall

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

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

Larry Wall

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

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

Larry Wall

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

“tt>signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */

Larry Wall

doarg.c.
Source code, Other files

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

Larry Wall

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

“tt>echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'

Larry Wall

Source code, <code>Configure</code>

“Portability should be the default.”

Larry Wall

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

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

Larry Wall

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