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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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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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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 think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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