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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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 how to deal with those ingredients.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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