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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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