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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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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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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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