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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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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 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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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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Programmers can be lazy.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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