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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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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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