i like the recursive sentence "you could have something that you think of as a noun, but you can verb it"
I'm a bear of very little brain, could you explain the recursive properties of this sentence? I don't see them.
Using verb as a verb.
Interview: Larry Wall
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Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#32I had to check the year on the article - "He’s the creator of Perl, a programming language that’s widely regarded as the glue holding the internet together " was arguably true in 1999 - 16 years ago.
And in a printed magazine as well...
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 upd…
That was the nadir of perl releases. Starting in 2010, they've released a new major version each year.
The first serious perl compiler was just released a week ago: http://rperl.org/
Some people moved on, some people stayed.
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#34I had to check the year on the article - "He’s the creator of Perl, a programming language that’s widely regarded as the glue holding the internet together " was arguably true in 1999 - 16 years ago.
Think of it as the COBOL of the Internet. Nobody wants to think about it, but it sustains so much.
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#35Perl was the second programming language I learned. Teenage me idolized Larry and his hippie wisdom.
"... the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris." — Larry Wall
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#36I 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
And you should see his socks!
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#37the man is a legend.
Perl was awesome when it first came out. Its time has passed but you can see Perl's influence in many things we use and take for granted today.
favorite writing: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#38Would I be nuts to pick perl over python as my main scripting/server admin language? I am a postgres, openbsd, data/text processing guy.
OpenBSD is 40% perl. Postgres uses perl for its builds. Perl seems to have better text processing capabilities. But it seems to be dying out compared to python.
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#39Would I be nuts to pick perl over python as my main scripting/server admin language? I am a postgres, openbsd, data/text processing guy. OpenBSD is 40% perl. Postgres uses perl for its builds. Perl seems to have better text processing capabilities. But it seems to be dying out compared to python.
No. Pick the one most suited to your brain/task.
Re: Interview: Larry Wall
#40prodigious intellect and a childhood hero of mine.
Unfortunately his contribution to web design rarely gets mentioned (http://www.wall.org/~larry/); no bootstrap--incredible.