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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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 autodecrement is not magical.
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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 note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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