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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.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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Portability should be the default.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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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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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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