Larry Wall Quotes about Technology

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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Real, Writing, Technology

Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.543, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

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Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

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

Technology, Trying, Clubs

"Perl Cookbook second edition". Book by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, 2003.