Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by mksaunders » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by melling » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:04 PM UTC

This question was submitted 7 hours ago and appears on the front page with 8 points. There must be a way to play with the ranking algorithm.

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by idlewords » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:18 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #2

This question was submitted 7 hours ago and appears on the front page with 8 points. There must be a way to play with the ranking algorithm.

Perl script

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:22 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #2

This question was submitted 7 hours ago and appears on the front page with 8 points. There must be a way to play with the ranking algorithm.

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Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #2

This question was submitted 7 hours ago and appears on the front page with 8 points. There must be a way to play with the ranking algorithm.

It's the mods out with a new feature, see dang's reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864365

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by yarou » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:29 PM UTC

Larry Wall is a great guy. Perl brings me back to the days of my Pentium 2, tinkering about with my primitive IRC bots.

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by melling » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:30 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #5

melling wrote: post #2

This question was submitted 7 hours ago and appears on the front page with 8 points. There must be a way to play with the ranking algorithm.

It's the mods out with a new feature, see dang's reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864365

Interesting that 8 points was enough. Well, it's off to the races. People should remember Perl programmers sleep late and live on the West Coast. Nothing before 1pm EST.

Let the Perl reminiscing commence.

Also, the warning as to why you should never start over.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by codeshaman » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 9:58 PM UTC

I love the shirt he's wearing in those pictures. What is it with geeks and psychedelic/hippie outfits ? Is it because of the patterns and colors, eccentricity or because of real involvement with the counterculture/psychedelia ? It's always fascinated and intrigued me.

Any people 'in the know' care to elaborate on that ?

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:03 PM UTC

codeshaman wrote: post #8

I love the shirt he's wearing in those pictures. What is it with geeks and psychedelic/hippie outfits ? Is it because of the patterns and colors, eccentricity or because of real involvement with the counterculture/psychedelia ? It's always fascinated and intrigued me. Any people 'in the know' care to elaborate on that ?

It's Larry Wall. Dressing like a member of the Village People on acid is probably one of the least whimsical things he's done. His State of the Onion addresses all blend surrealism and technicality quite aptly.

See his Wikiquote for examples of his humor: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

Re: Interview: Larry Wall

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Post by rrss1122 » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:09 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #7

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the mods out with a new feature, see dang's reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864365

Interesting that 8 points was enough. Well, it's off to the races. People should remember Perl programmers sleep late and live on the West Coast. Nothing before 1pm EST. Let the Perl reminiscing commence. Also, the warning as to why you should never start over. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

I started out learning Perl. This was when 5.10 was the newest version which was pretty much forever ago.

I just went to look up Perl 5.10 release notes, and they billed it as "the first major upgrade... in over five years."

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html

I would have loved to keep using Perl in a professional setting but even when I first learned it, it was already forever between two major updates. Perl was fun to use. It's just too bad everyone moved on.