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Sunday April 01, 2007
03:19 AM
Larry Wall Facts
In addition to the Chuck Norris facts, the Bruce Schneier facts and the Eric S. Raymond facts, I decided to start writing some "Larry Wall facts":
- Larry Wall can understand the Perl code he wrote last year.
- Larry Wall gets the colon.
- There are at least 137 Larry Walls in the U.S. but only one that matters.
- Larry Wall applies a patch manually quicker than GNU patch.
- Larry Wall dreams in Perl.
- Larry Wall can program in his sleep.
- Larry Wall is lazy, impatient and full of hubris.
- Larry Wall has more dollars in the bank than in his Perl code.
More additions are welcome.
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Well I like you enthusiasm... (Score:1)
I don't think Mr. Wall would agree with this one:
Minor quibble I know...
Suggested revision (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Larry did not write GNU patch. GNU patch may have been a fork of his patch program (though I doubt it), but I think it was a rewrite. In any case, GNU patch has much more features than the original patch by lwall, which is now good enough only as a historical curiousity.
That put aside, I was hoping people would come up with more funny facts of their own. Did April Fools' (or Passover) ate your sense of humour? ;-)
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As well as:
Yes, I imagine there is little (if any) of Larry's code left but I figured it was true enough for a joke!
I also thought of it a being a nice reference to the "bolder so heavy" (or "burrito so hot") type question.
Re: (Score:2)
I thought it was a funnier joke without the explanation, myself. :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re: (Score:2)
Cool! Thanks for the research and letting us know. Here's the original patch announcement [google.com] as far as I could tell. I still don't know whether its licence was GPL or BSD.
Anyway, it's nice that some of the people at the GNU project are re-using code like this. I do wish they did not have the tendency to convert perfectly fine BSD/Public Domain code into the GPL or LGPL.
Dreams? (Score:2)
Ah, but he thinks in whistles! O:-)