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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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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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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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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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