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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
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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'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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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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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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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