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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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