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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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