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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Information wants to be useful.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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