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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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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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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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