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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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