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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Portability should be the default.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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