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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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