“I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.”
Hope“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”
Relationship“I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.”
Hope“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”
Death“When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.”
Design“For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.”
Relationship“I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.”
Science“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
Technology“I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.”
Positive“Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.”
Architecture