Sto lat, Larry!

Dzisiaj są urodziny Larry'ego Walla. Wprawdzie w kartografii Perl chyba trochę pozostał w tyle za swoim wężowatym kolegą, ale i tak jest na liście języków, które warto znać.

Dwa moje ulubione cytaty z Larry'ego:

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.