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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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