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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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Information wants to be useful.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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