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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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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Portability should be the default.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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