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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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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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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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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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