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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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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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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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