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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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 won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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