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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.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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