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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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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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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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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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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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