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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

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

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

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

[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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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.”

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

[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…”

[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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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.”

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

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

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