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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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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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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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