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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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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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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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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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