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, thats great. – Larry Wall
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope theyll do very well with it. – Larry Wall
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. Its limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. – Larry Wall
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think its still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. – Larry Wall
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. – Larry Wall
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship. – Larry Wall
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. – Larry Wall
