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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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Information wants to be useful.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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