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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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