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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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