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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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