Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.