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Ask Larry Wall

Posted by Roblimo on from the from-the-master's-mouth-to-your-ear dept.

About what? Perl is probably a good topic choice. No one knows more about Perl than Larry Wall, right? We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Larry by email, and post his answers when we get them back. Note: Due to Slashdot's line length restrictions, lines of code over 50 characters long may not display correctly. Please be aware of this if you include code samples in your question.

9 of 616 comments (clear)

  1. We Want Heidi by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heidi Wall is so hot

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  2. hmmm... by Byteme · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    What are your top ten favorite albums? You know, you desert island disks (DID)...

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  3. 50 lines??? by Bandman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Please! Most of Larry's programs would never THINK of being 50 lines.
    If he wrote a perl script that was 50 lines long, we could replace DirectX!

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  4. Re:How many ducks by geekoid · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    shouldn't that be
    I need to know, quack.

    answer:
    (2cargaregofducks +1) -1

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  5. Dude by loserdave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    $ perl -e '{ print "Larry Wall totally rules!\n"; }'

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  6. Re:Perl as a "scripting" or a "programming" langua by Marc2k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So J2EE and Java in general is scripting? What about C++/C#/J++/VB.NET? Those are all compiled only to an intermediate language, then interpreted.

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  7. Re:How many ducks by Lxy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    42.

    You missed one.

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  8. when geeks diversify by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How many average sized ducks can fit into a two car garage. I need to know quick.

    The frequency of such questions is perhaps a good guage of the state of the tech economy.

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  9. Re:How many ducks by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you flatten them out, 1,274,397.

    I need to find out how to rid my driveway of 12,000 gallons of duck blood before my wife gets home, quick!

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