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Larry Wall: Computer Programming in 5 Minutes New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer programming is a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is and you can copy the format to create your own. But then you can take it a lot further. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LARRY WALL: Larry Wall is the computer programmer responsible for creating Perl, a powerful general-purpose programming language known for its strengths in text processing. Wall, whose graduate work was in linguistics, designed Perl in 1987 for reports processing and continues to oversee the language's development according to the motto "Larry is always right, even when he was wrong." He also originated the three canonical "virtues" of a good programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Question: Can you explain the basics of the computer programming in five minutes? Larry Wall: Well, I can certainly try. 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 ho

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