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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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