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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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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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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Portability should be the default.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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