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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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