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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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