Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. - Larry Wall

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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Larry Wall

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About Larry Wall

Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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Alternative Names: TimToady • Larry Arnold Wall

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Additional quotes by Larry Wall

I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right... But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.