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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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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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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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