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

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Portability should be the default.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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