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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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