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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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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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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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