Larry Wall: Why Perl Is Like a Human Language

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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2011

Wall's background in linguistics helped him to create a programming language that borrows bits from other languages, much like English.

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  • @PoorRichardSaunders Please get out

  • omg i have spended so much time smoking weed... LOOK AT HIM !!!.... I WILL START PROGRAMMING AND GET HIGH LIKE him

  • 5:02 "Everyone's saying because it's 'shiny'... there's one." - was that a Firefly reference, or was it unintentional?

  • @PoorRichardSaunders: And people like you are a cause, why I did not yet use Python, I hope the Python-community does not only consists of snotty "XYZ-is-dead-I-only-use-ABC" type of persons...

  • Now I understand why this guy is so gross, grosser even than Stallman. Really missionaries are even grosser than child touchers-- although I suspect most missionaries are child touchers too. Yea, I want nothing to do with Perl. Thankfully Python is now the language of choice to handle everything that Perl use to do better than other languages.

  • 5:45 - 5:58

    Great analogy.

  • "skosh" (shikoshi = Japanese for "a little bit") Nice

  • Nostalgic. I used PERL back in the 90's. Python in the 00's.

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