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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
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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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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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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