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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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Portability should be the default.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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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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