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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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