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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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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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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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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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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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