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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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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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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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