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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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