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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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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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