Canadian - Businessman | September 27, 1954 -
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Larry Wall
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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