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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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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'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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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 someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Information wants to be useful.
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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