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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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