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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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