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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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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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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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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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