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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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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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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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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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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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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Portability should be the default.
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