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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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 talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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