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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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