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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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Larry Arnold Wall
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned 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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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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