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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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