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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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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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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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