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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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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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