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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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