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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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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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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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Portability should be the default.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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