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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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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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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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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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