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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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