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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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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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