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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that 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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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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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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