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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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