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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.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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