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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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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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