Mark Jason Dominus

Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) is a computer programmer. He was the managing editor of www.perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal.

Quotes

• Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.
  • Dominus, Mark Jason (February 9, 2000). My Life With Spam : How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With It. Retrieved on 2006-11-30.

• A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"
  • Dominus, Mark Jason (October 19, 2006). Boring answers to Powell's questions. Retrieved on 2006-11-30.

• You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
  • Dominus, Mark Jason (June 28, 2002). YAPC 2002 - The Movie. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.

• In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.
  • Interview with Mark Jason Dominus. The Perl Review (April 7, 2005). Archived from the original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved on January 17, 2011.

• Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form ‘How do I use X to accomplish Y?’ There's nothing wrong with this, except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the integration of European currency systems.
  • Put down the chocolate-covered banana and step away from the European currency systems..