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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
Computer Scientist
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LA
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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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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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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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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