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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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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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