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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Portability should be the default.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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