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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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