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Linux Journal interviews Larry Wall

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

jbc writes "Linux Journal's cover story for May was an interview with Larry Wall, which is now online. Some good stuff on the future of Perl, whether or not Open Source is a passing fad, and why Activestate is not necessarily evil. "

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  1. Very good article... by vinh · · Score: 4
    I found this article very interesting, even if you're just a "Sunday" Perl programmer (like me) :)

    For those who have read _The design and evolution of C++_ by Stroustroupp (sp??) it is interesting to note that Perl and C++ share some design philosophies. Like "the user is always right" school of thought. Maybe that's why both of these languages are popular?

    Anyway, you gotta admit larry Wall has a pretty big vocabulary:
    • ...three chief virtues of a programmer: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris...
    • ...Third, I look for projects that franchise the disenfranchised...
    • ...explicitly designed to be postmodern...
    • ...free-form syntax...
    • ..I must have a conjunctive rather than a disjunctive brain...

    and etc. etc... I sure would have got higher scores in school had I used words like that! :)