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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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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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