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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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