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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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