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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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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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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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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 computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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