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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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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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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Portability should be the default.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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